“The bigger plan for 10,000 homes on the site is just a dream (lets call it a nightmare!)…” – July 16 2021
Tony Hogben Cabinet member for Horsham Town, Parking and Communications.
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JULY 17 2021
Dear Tony,
West of Ifield
Thank you for confirming that you note our points!!!
We had understood from Liz Kitchen that you felt that West of Ifield was a totally unacceptable option and so I had hoped that you, at least, would have appeared at the Council meeting yesterday to represent the view that you represent.
The 15th July Committee meeting would, I thought, have been considered to have been of major importance as it affected the appearance, history, infrastructure and the environment of all of the countryside from Rusper, to Faygate and to Ifield!
It would have hoped, therefore, that you would have considered this meeting to have been of major importance for the future of our area!
If you were not able to attend, we might have hoped that you would have made your views known in absentia.
If not, where do we go to for democracy!!!
Our case is unanswerable to anyone who listens!!!
It would appear that Council’s view does not comply with Government dictac on Greenbelt development, it does not comply with Sustainability or Bio-Diversity constraints, it does not comply with loss of an historical, 100 year old, thriving sporting facility, it does not comply with the impossible effects on an already straining local road network, it does not comply with an already surcharged medical infrastructure.
WHAT ON EARTH DOES IT COMPLY WITH??
If you are in agreement with our unanswerable argument, please let me know how we should proceed from here!
Otherwise, if you agree with the committee’s grotesque travesty of a democratic decision, please let me know so that we can take our reasoned argument elsewhere!
Kind regards,
Malcolm Bender
Pinewood, Rusper Road,
Ifield,
