LETTER: Negative impacts of Ifield plan
The fact of Horsham District Council’s unequivocal rejection of the monstrous ‘West of Ifield’ development proposal (“Council should seize opportunity”, WSCT Letters, September 5, 2013), is clearly difficult for a coastal resident to accept.
Angmering’s Stephen G. Coppen has a problem in facing certain facts; clearly laid out in “Horsham District Planning Framework - Interim Sustainability Appraisal Environmental Report of the Preferred Strategy - August 2013” (copy in Horsham Library):
Fact 1 - Leisure & Recreation: Negative Impact
Fact 2 - Biodiversity: Negative Impact
Fact 3 - Landscape: Negative Impact
Fact 4 - Archaeology & Cultural: Negative Impact
Fact 5 - Environmental Quality: Negative Impact
Fact 6 - Climate Change & Resources: Negative Impact
Fact 7 - Flooding: Smaller Negative Impact
Fact 8 - Drainage: Smaller Negative Impact
Fact 9 - Waste: Likely Negative Impact
Fact 10 - Transport: Negative Impact
Richard W. Symonds MCIPD
The Ifield Society
Lavington Close, Ifield