Objection to HELAA site GUE0012.

It has been brought to my attention that planning has been submitted for 14 houses to be built on Chapel Lane.

I think I know where this application has come from as planning permission for 4 houses was submitted about 18 months ago and was refused. I have lived in Chapel Lane now for 40 years and have noticed an increase in traffic and other things particularly on school days and if Friars Hill is closed causing more traffic up and down and is's like a main road.

I strongly object to any more development in this lane as it's not suitable for more heavy traffic. The Lane should remain as its been for over 100 years.

I would respectably ask the Council planners to refuse this application.

See attachments for supporting documentation to the representations that have been made

Representation by Stantec on behalf of Welbeck Strategic Land III Limited in support of Land East of Waites Lane, Fairlight Cove - HELAA site ID FAI0001.

Submission also responds to questions 59, 60, 61, 76, 27 and 191 in the Regulation 18 draft Local Plan.

Please see attached submission for full comments.

See attached documents which comprise the submission for the Regulation 18 Local Plan and HELAA site ICK0002: Seven Acres, Watermill Lane, Icklesham.

Objection to GUE0012: Wild Meadows, Chapel Lane,
Guestling Green

As a resident of Guestling I am writing to provide our views on the visions for Hastings Surrounding settlements, specifically those outlined for 14 houses in Chapel Lane, Guestling. We live in Friars Hill, but our property borders the corner of Chapel Lane, so we are very familiar with the proposed site.

Having moved down from Orpington, Kent three years ago, the thing that attracted us to this area was that we are in an area of outstanding natural beauty, which we believed prohibited the development of rural land, hence maintaining what little open space and countryside that this country has to offer. We have seen Orpington give away vast areas of its greenbelt land, resulting in traffic issues (pollution, increased accidents, delays and congestion and car parking outside of properties), increased pressure on NHS waiting times (both hospital and GP’s), problems finding local school placements (with children having to travel over an hour on public transport to get to school). We are therefore all too aware of the damaging effects that ‘development’ can cause.

There seems to be development in all villages in the surrounding areas such as Kent, where villages such as ours are being swallowed up by expansion. In years to come all villages surrounding Ashford, for example, are likely to be swallowed up and will not likely be in the ‘ fringes’ for much longer. We MUST protect our villages from this happening. We benefit from tourists throughout the year and have thriving bed & breakfast, hotel, caravan and glamping sites that will be effected if we keep losing our countryside to development.

As a family of 4 (with two older teenage children) we have 4 cars. If you are proposing sanction of a further 14 houses, this is likely to mean an increase of a minimum of 28 cars and an average household such as ours could mean an increase of 56 cars. Where are they all going to park? There is not sufficient space on Chapel Lane for any overspill of cars. Chapel Lane is already a dangerous lane to drive and walk along, with drivers coming along there too fast and it is narrow and there are not many passing spaces. There is also no pavement, so if you are building new houses with a view to the inhabitants walking to the bus stop, this is putting pedestrians at risk. Recently Friars Hill was closed for roadworks and all traffic was diverted down Chapel Lane. It was chaos!! I myself nearly ended up driving into a bush to avoid fast driving oncoming traffic and there was an accident, where an ambulance had to be called, due to a motorist driving into the back of a motorbike. The motorbike had stopped as there was a goose in the road and the car was driving too fast and couldn’t stop in time. This re-iterates my point that the Lane is too dangerous for pedestrians and increased traffic will make this worse.

I am not sure how long such a development will take to build but access to and from the site with large building materials, cement lorries, cranes etc, if feasible at all, is also going to put a huge strain on local traffic measures. I would suggest that your officers visit the site during school drop off and pick up times to see whether you feel it is prudent to be increasing this traffic load with heavy vehicles. It will be unsafe.

I also don’t believe that there are sufficient local facilities to support the development, with no local GP surgeries, shops and the primary school being oversubscribed.

I hope that these issues are all taken into account when considering agreement for these plans in relation to this site.

I am happy to discuss these further, should you wish, and am aware that a vast number of my neighbours have the same concerns and worries and we would be happy to come together to provide a local group that you can approach in the future to provide thoughts and feedback on any future proposed sites.

Sorry but we do not need any more houses to be built down a small country land. Where it is hard enough to drive a car down there anyhow. It gets even busier when the children come out from school each day, and it is a shame to spoil the rural setting that we have in this area.

Objection to HELAA site FAI0001 Land east of
Waites Lane, Fairlight Cove

Full representation can be viewed in attached submission document, which includes photographs forming Appendices 1 - 5.

I sent a letter to you on the 20th July 2024 giving my views on this within the time scale
allowed. Since then I have received the following information that although after the cut off
date for comments it is so important I think it should still be taken into account in your
decision whether to hold another vote again for development of this site or not, I hope not.

The information is as follows, a neighbour friend who was on the Fairlight
Parish Council until recently, remembers being informed recently that the then MP for
Hastings & Rye Ms Sally Ann Hart was of the opinion that this site should NOT be developed because there was plenty of spare land available elsewhere in the vicinity suitable for provision of 30 to 50 houses to be developed and should be investigated before such a decision is made. I remember also being informed the same information by Rother District Councillor Mr Andrew Mier also of Fairlight and again wish this to be investigated. Of course now the Labour Party may have differing ideas for this site, it changes the position I hope not.

I trust this is true and hope something positive comes out of it.

We do not need any more traffic in Chapel Lane. Already it is like a rat run, cars parked in Higham Gardens and Chapel Lane from the school are a nightmare.

I dread to think what it would be like if they build more houses, more schools cars. I am definitely against it. I am 93 years old.