Whilst I do not doubt that Rother Council is under pressure from the Government to create additional housing in this area I do not believe that this should be implemented without at least a little common sense being used when proposing areas for development.

The Spindlewood Drive development is both inappropriate and unnecessary as there is already agreed substantial development in the area - more than the local infrastructure can sustain.

1: Little Common's infrastructure - roads, shops, parking, environment-already due to be increased due to the Barnhorn Green Development(BX120) simply could not cope with an additional 160 houses in Spindlewood Drive. (BEX09) and North Eye (BEX101).The additional traffic created on Barnhorn Road and surrounding roads would be unsustainable It is currently over stretched at bottle necks such as the Little Common roundabout, and will be made worse by additional traffic lights at Barnhorn Green despite the pathetic ally weak response from the Highways Agency and their feeble "improvements" suggested.

2: There is no employment in the area - anyone needing to work (most presumably) would have to travel by car or bus with the obvious detrimental effect on the local environment.

A more suitable site would appear to be The Bexhill North Access Road (NBAR BEX3) which would have better road access and would be closer to other facilities such as schools, G.P's , shops and rail transport. Further it would have far better access to major roads such as the A21 and would relieve pressure on the A259.

For these reasons (and a host of others) Spindlewood Drive should be excluded from the plans as it is both unnecessary and impractical.