Comment

Representation ID: 2181

Received: 14/07/2021

Respondent: Mr Richard Jewson

Number of people: 2

The following is a summary:
More houses need to be built, but it is wrong to use this one-dimensional approach. It should be about allowing communities to grow. This requires vision, leadership and a sense of what community might look like a generation ahead.

Barnham Broom has a primary school, church, village hall and playing field, pub and shop. It faces real issues, particularly roads and transport, but deals with them - e.g. the much-used village hall, recent projects to restore the Church Bells, build a memorial garden, and rejuvenate the Barnham Broom Fuel Allotment Charity. A recent substantial residential development and continued infilling means the population is expanding.

I fully support the attached letter, which proposes how SN4051 might be crucial to community development. Maybe the village playing field with its 60’s village hall could be developed for housing and the proceeds used to acquire and develop SN4051, with improved village hall and playing field facilities. This would provide a gathering space in the centre of our village with village hall, shop and pub.