Amid all the controversy about the sale of the playing fields fronting Surrenden Road, Brighton, the environmental aspect appears to have been ignored.
The planned housing will bring about the destruction of 17 trees with preservation orders on them. The new estate will be less than 200 yards from bat colonies.
The whole development is less than two kilometres from a conservation area and, more worryingly, the proposed new pitch will be bordering a site of archaeological importance.
The whole of this area of Surrenden is on a chalk aquifer. The rain is filtered through this permeable substrate and becomes our drinking water.
When the development in Stringer and Draxmont Way was built, there was some concern about this issue but this new development appears to be being waved through without the assurances such a sensitive site would normally receive.
Why is Brighton and Hove City Council not insisting on an Environmental Impact Study? Such research would show whether the environment was going to be damaged by this development.
-Chris Hearn, Surrenden Crescent, Brighton
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