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Residents oppose building plans on flooding areas in Southwick
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26/03/2024
Residents of Southview Road, Southwick and neighbouring roads are opposed to plans to build on a site that regularly floods, fearing it will aggravate a problem that already exists
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My name is Stephen Guy. I'm a resident in Southview Road, and we're stood at the
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outside number 53 and number 55
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Southview Road. These houses are going to be demolished by the developer and he's going to create a mini estate
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at the back of this particular piece of land and
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our concerns, myself and my friends and neighbors behind me, is that the development will straddle
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a stream which normally runs under the surface, but after the
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excessive rains that we've had for the last few months has come to the surface now and
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has already contributed to the flooding of many of the properties in this area.
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Our main concern is that if the development goes ahead,
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the stream will be diverted
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more flooding will take place and the land also serves to act as a sponge
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absorbing much of the water and
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if the development goes ahead that will not
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be the case and there will be even more surface groundwater for us to contend with. On that basis
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we want, we are objecting in considerable numbers, and we would want
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the organizations like Southern Water and the Environment Agency to also join and
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object to this development. It should not go ahead and we will continue to fight it until we succeed in stopping it.
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