Under the community land trust plan I believe there should be 20/25 houses in every village.

We used to have young people in the villages. There were teams for football, cricket, stool ball and some other activities, but now most villages are full of older people. The young ones move out as there are no houses for them. Village homes are sold to retirement folk.

Ashburnham, for example, could take 29 houses by the planned village hall, add £10,000/£15,000 to each one, there's the new hall paid for.

Dallington, where there is a traveller's site for one, there could be 20 homes there. It's called cold Harbour, I believe, the same for Brightling and Mountfield. We should invite every parish council to find a site to build for the local people. If there are no young people they will turn up if the homes are truly affordable, create a few work places in the villages and re-establish farming. It could be done. There is no need to look for developers saying what they want to build. Rother should tell them what to build.

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