Preferred Residential Development Sites

I do not agree that the proposed Spindlewood site is appropriate with the state of its infrastructure, one entrance to the proposed site, I can see that all the traffic including heavy lorries would use Meads Road already heavily use for parking, no heavy lorries would use Maple Walk, single lane and unadopted, entrance into Spindlewood has parking on the left and right. No mention has been made of the new Barn Horn Green site that has already got the go ahead Traffic is already starting to queue heavy with the traffic sometimes running back as far as the Lamb Inn on the A259, the new traffic lights will not cure this problem.

Major road alterations are to be carried out to the Coppell roundabout at Polegate leading onto and off the A27. Once the alterations are completed by Highway England, this will mean that the traffic that leaves the A27 going East will arrive at Little Common A259 so much quicker thus leading to heavy congestion and major traffic jam.

With the possibility of added traffic from the proposed Spindlewood site it's going to get gridlocked.

It is known that the air pollution levels around Little Common are close to breaching safe levels so it is expected to be even higher air pollution when the building starts at Barnhorn Green site.

This is why proposed site BX124-the new North Bexhill Access Road (NEAR) where 450 houses are currently proposed (option 1)but where numbers could be increased by between 65 and 215.

The infrastructure is already in place and is a major factor for this to go forward.

Another more suitable site is BX101 at North Eye another preferred brownfield site where a possible 115 houses are proposed as an option (but which are not currently included in RDC total of 1044.

Access from this proposed site is straight onto the A259; yes traffic will increase for traffic going East but with larger towns like Eastbourne and Brighton having more industrial works I can see more traffic heading west, and with Coppell roundabout having major reconstruction works traffic will flow a lot more easily.