Campaigners in new moves to halt ‘mini town’ being built near Billingshurst

Campaigners battling to stop construction of a new ‘mini town’ near Billingshurst are backing the opposition of Government housing figures.
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A development company known as Our Place is proposing to build 3,000 homes, along with schools, employment space and a health centre on a greenfield site at Adversane.

Now residents in Adversane and Billingshurst - members of a protest group known as BigSTAND - are welcoming Horsham District Council’s decision to oppose Government proposals which would more than double the district’s housing target.

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A spokesman said the development proposals “would see a remote and separate new town dumped in the middle of the countryside.

An area of land at Adversane which has been earmarked for the possible construction of 3,000 new homes SUS-190909-130103001An area of land at Adversane which has been earmarked for the possible construction of 3,000 new homes SUS-190909-130103001
An area of land at Adversane which has been earmarked for the possible construction of 3,000 new homes SUS-190909-130103001

The group says the planned development site, known as Kingswood, “is located miles from the local employment centres of Horsham and Crawley, with no public transport connections.”

They fear it would led to a huge increase in traffic on the A29 and B2133.

BigSTAND chairman Julian Trumper said: “We are very pleased that Horsham Council is standing up for residents to oppose the Government’s new housing figures which would ruin the countryside and place impossible demands on existing social and physical infrastructure like roads, health and schools.

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“Horsham councillors should reject the Kingswood plans which will lead to more car journeys, more pollution, more isolation and the destruction of 150 hectares of our rural heritage.”

The area is one of serveral sites put forward in the Horsham area for possible development. No decisions have yet been made.