Pagham overfills summertime and building more residents not required.
Pointless and totally unfair for those that live here.
P
Peter Hickey
9 years ago
Leave the open areas alone.
Not needed and not wanted around here.
S
Sue thomas
9 years ago
If you keep on building on farm land what are we going to do if god forbid there is another war, And we have to grow our own food again. Also are village is big enough there will be no green fields or farm land left.
A
Anonymous
9 years ago
It's frightening that they are over populating our land we need leaders not corporate puppets
K
Kenneth Miller
9 years ago
Building on areas at risk of flood, are always an unwise idea in the first place. However, with no plans to improve the Pagham Road in order to improve capacity to the A27, or cash to build on and extend infrastructure to support local community, why would you want to spoil an area of natural beauty, which in turn plays a key role to the UK, in supply of food. As in generations to come, there will be a lack of agricultural capacity in the UK.
Why not look at brown field development in areas of Bognor Regis, to improve derelict sites, which in turn will better support the local economy and outlook?
J
Jacqui Rochford
9 years ago
We are too crowded here already and these extra developments will ruin the area for ever. The roads and other services just cannot take it. What about our quality of life?
J
Judi Burne
9 years ago
My husband & myself are
Furious about this as we live off
Hook lane where there is already drain troubles and bad
Roads having had no work done
on for at least 3 years. So anymore traffic will add even more problems in such a tiny
village. We have only one access
Road in and out which is a B road. So if the council give
Planning permission there will be a great many disgruntled
villagers with much justification.
M
Malcolm Humphrey
9 years ago
We have not got the roads to take more traffic around Pagham or any other infrastructure needed to take more houses also the area floods and now we have the real threat from the sea
J
J Ayling
9 years ago
The A259, Pagham Road are gridlocked at peak times. The A27 is gridlocked all the time. Hook Lane is not suitable for 600 more cars, and the proposed school and nursery will cause chaos to those using the road and householders. The field in Hook Lane floods and is waterlogged now. Good agricultural land should never be used for development. Pagham is a quiet seaside village that is being eroded by the sea. It does not need anymore houses.
A
Alan Macartney
9 years ago
why has someone looked at a little village like Pagham with small country roads, land we need
to grow food on (without having to import), No one takes much notice of them so we can Plonk
3,000 plus houses on them, It doe not make sense it floods and has a high water table, The sea
defences are disappearing, and possibly Pagham will flood from the sea,
Would it not be better to build nearer to places that have work, rather than choke our roads with
more cars. Looking further along our road to the A27 which you have to cross to get anywhere
it is very congested in the rush hour and in the summer time.
A
anonymous
9 years ago
It beggers belief that they are prepared to build fewer houses when providing childcare facilities/school but to build more houses, in an area where childcare and schools are at a premium, there will be no provision for this. In both cases - additional facilities for additional GPs/dentists etc. You only have to travel by train through to Worthing to see how much space currently covered in redundant glasshouses could be utilised for this additional housing.
C
carol penny
9 years ago
Why 300 houses/no school...but 70 less houses plus a school - doesnt equate. Also local Healthcentre were looking to replace 4 GPs during the earlier part of this year ... the infrastructure wont cope with all additional folks - no additional hospital spaces etc. Why such large houses - which not smaller cheaper 1/2 bedroom flats to assist local youngsters to get a foot on the ladder - and elderly residents to move down from larger premises.
D
Doug Allen
9 years ago
Increase in road traffic on already on an inadequate road. Flooding, sewage, lack of infrastructure, jobs for newcomers. This area has some of the best agricultural land in the country and this needs to continue or we face the risk of having to import foreign food.
J
Jane Richardson
9 years ago
Lack of infrastructure, lack of jobs, traffic grid lock on and south of A27. Building on farmland whilst we are trying t reduce our carbon emissions/food miles. Irony that people who live on the beach are asked to accept the inevitability of flood because of where their house is built, yet one mile up the road...
A
Anonymous
9 years ago
I understand the need for more housing but use brownfield sites to build on and not agricultural land which we will need to grow food to feed our people at rate the world is heading.
P
Patricia Madden
9 years ago
Stop destroying our beautiful countryside.
This also adds pressure to our local hospitals, doctors surgeries,dentists etc, who are already really under pressure, with the population currently.
M
mary brenton
9 years ago
Well done Gill and Albert such a worthy cause.
M
Michelle Arundale
9 years ago
Enough is enough. Our roads cannot sustain the traffic around Bognor and Chichester now, let alone with ever increasing house building. Our GP surgeries, hospitals and dentists are over subscribed and amongst these new builds, affordable housing is minimal! To build on more flood plains is madness.
L
Lesley Smith
9 years ago
Please, please stop building on greenfield sites. Before too long we will all live in one urban sprawl, not separate villages, and there will be no fields and wildlife left.
P
Phil Newsom
9 years ago
The existing infrastructure cannot cope with the population as it is now, let alone with a flood of however many more people and vehicles. The roads and infrastructure in this entire area stretching from Portsmouth to Shoreham are bursting at the seams and these government schemes / incentives to build more homes, in certain areas, are ludicrous. Why not invest some real money into infrastructure and industry in the area, considering we hope to leave the EU, you would think that things like agriculture would be being promoted not destroyed. The only people who profit from these 'developments' are the house builders and this proposed development would provide no benefit to the local or wider community at all. A good example of this is the two developments already permitted on the outskirts of Bognor Regis and Felpham. What did the town gain from this ? Nothing.
Has the road scheme solved the traffic issue ? No - the traffic jams have been moved from one end of town to the other.
Pagham overfills summertime and building more residents not required. Pointless and totally unfair for those that live here.
Leave the open areas alone. Not needed and not wanted around here.
If you keep on building on farm land what are we going to do if god forbid there is another war, And we have to grow our own food again. Also are village is big enough there will be no green fields or farm land left.
It's frightening that they are over populating our land we need leaders not corporate puppets
Building on areas at risk of flood, are always an unwise idea in the first place. However, with no plans to improve the Pagham Road in order to improve capacity to the A27, or cash to build on and extend infrastructure to support local community, why would you want to spoil an area of natural beauty, which in turn plays a key role to the UK, in supply of food. As in generations to come, there will be a lack of agricultural capacity in the UK. Why not look at brown field development in areas of Bognor Regis, to improve derelict sites, which in turn will better support the local economy and outlook?
We are too crowded here already and these extra developments will ruin the area for ever. The roads and other services just cannot take it. What about our quality of life?
My husband & myself are Furious about this as we live off Hook lane where there is already drain troubles and bad Roads having had no work done on for at least 3 years. So anymore traffic will add even more problems in such a tiny village. We have only one access Road in and out which is a B road. So if the council give Planning permission there will be a great many disgruntled villagers with much justification.
We have not got the roads to take more traffic around Pagham or any other infrastructure needed to take more houses also the area floods and now we have the real threat from the sea
The A259, Pagham Road are gridlocked at peak times. The A27 is gridlocked all the time. Hook Lane is not suitable for 600 more cars, and the proposed school and nursery will cause chaos to those using the road and householders. The field in Hook Lane floods and is waterlogged now. Good agricultural land should never be used for development. Pagham is a quiet seaside village that is being eroded by the sea. It does not need anymore houses.
why has someone looked at a little village like Pagham with small country roads, land we need to grow food on (without having to import), No one takes much notice of them so we can Plonk 3,000 plus houses on them, It doe not make sense it floods and has a high water table, The sea defences are disappearing, and possibly Pagham will flood from the sea, Would it not be better to build nearer to places that have work, rather than choke our roads with more cars. Looking further along our road to the A27 which you have to cross to get anywhere it is very congested in the rush hour and in the summer time.
It beggers belief that they are prepared to build fewer houses when providing childcare facilities/school but to build more houses, in an area where childcare and schools are at a premium, there will be no provision for this. In both cases - additional facilities for additional GPs/dentists etc. You only have to travel by train through to Worthing to see how much space currently covered in redundant glasshouses could be utilised for this additional housing.
Why 300 houses/no school...but 70 less houses plus a school - doesnt equate. Also local Healthcentre were looking to replace 4 GPs during the earlier part of this year ... the infrastructure wont cope with all additional folks - no additional hospital spaces etc. Why such large houses - which not smaller cheaper 1/2 bedroom flats to assist local youngsters to get a foot on the ladder - and elderly residents to move down from larger premises.
Increase in road traffic on already on an inadequate road. Flooding, sewage, lack of infrastructure, jobs for newcomers. This area has some of the best agricultural land in the country and this needs to continue or we face the risk of having to import foreign food.
Lack of infrastructure, lack of jobs, traffic grid lock on and south of A27. Building on farmland whilst we are trying t reduce our carbon emissions/food miles. Irony that people who live on the beach are asked to accept the inevitability of flood because of where their house is built, yet one mile up the road...
I understand the need for more housing but use brownfield sites to build on and not agricultural land which we will need to grow food to feed our people at rate the world is heading.
Stop destroying our beautiful countryside. This also adds pressure to our local hospitals, doctors surgeries,dentists etc, who are already really under pressure, with the population currently.
Well done Gill and Albert such a worthy cause.
Enough is enough. Our roads cannot sustain the traffic around Bognor and Chichester now, let alone with ever increasing house building. Our GP surgeries, hospitals and dentists are over subscribed and amongst these new builds, affordable housing is minimal! To build on more flood plains is madness.
Please, please stop building on greenfield sites. Before too long we will all live in one urban sprawl, not separate villages, and there will be no fields and wildlife left.
The existing infrastructure cannot cope with the population as it is now, let alone with a flood of however many more people and vehicles. The roads and infrastructure in this entire area stretching from Portsmouth to Shoreham are bursting at the seams and these government schemes / incentives to build more homes, in certain areas, are ludicrous. Why not invest some real money into infrastructure and industry in the area, considering we hope to leave the EU, you would think that things like agriculture would be being promoted not destroyed. The only people who profit from these 'developments' are the house builders and this proposed development would provide no benefit to the local or wider community at all. A good example of this is the two developments already permitted on the outskirts of Bognor Regis and Felpham. What did the town gain from this ? Nothing. Has the road scheme solved the traffic issue ? No - the traffic jams have been moved from one end of town to the other.