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See it in the sustainability reports-----

Or your report
Hamper by no MSDC

AWVP over-engeering and excessive burecracy and agaust LOcalisatoA|ct---- falling over each
other= bearin in mind that less than 6 houses a year massive excess of land….

Dangers of management by targets --- BS and box ticking….
Defaulted MSDC plan == pressure to establish a 5 year labd bacnk

AW protect the village and green fields and MSDC get itself of a hook—rule the closer to
central govenement and agency is the more it is driven by targets

B BACKGROUND
This part sets out an overview of the problem.--- expanded later

1. I contend that the problem arises from:

• errors, and ambiguities buried deeply the AWNP, Sustainability Appraisals and
associated documentation. AWNP was accepted as the “made” plan on 30 June
th
2016 (Attachment 2);

• breaches of process by MSDC and AWVC;

• overly ambitious planning schemes that seek to leverage ambiguities in the AWNP;
and a consuming bias in favour of a development which is, at best, preposterous. That is,
except in terms of commercial returns and Community Infra-structure (CIS) benefits.

2. My wife and I live in an apartment next to Wealden House. It is no exaggeration to say
that our lives, and those of our neighbours and all villagers would be damaged beyond
repair if the proposed development by Ashgrove Homes Limited (AHL) and GCP
Developments (Ltd?) were to materialise.
3. The planned developments and source of the current problem are:

• SITE 13 on the AWNP Sustainability Appraisal and ASW Policy 9: A current application
(DM/18/aa and DM16/2845+ LINKED HERE) before Mid Sussex District Council
(MSDC) for between 71 and 54 mainly four-storey, “utilitarian” flats on the 0.84
hectare Wealden House EDF site (WH:EDF);
• SITE 14 on the AWNP Sustainability Appraisal and ASW Policy 10: A further (but, as
yet, inhibited application) development of an estimated 45-60 flats on the 0.40
hectare Wealden House Life Improvement Centre site (WH:LIC);

In reality, they are believed to be inter-dependent elements in an integrated scheme for
an estimated 100-125 flats on a developable area of 1.24+/- hectares. The density of
between 80 and 100 dwellings per hectare (DdHa) contrasts with:
• Ashurst Wood Village generally 3.19 DdHa
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• Category 3 villages= 1.12 DdHa

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