Controversial plans to build 2,000 homes on a village have been approved.
Horsham District Council agreed most of the recommendations made in its planning blueprint on Tuesday night.
These include forcing the area west of Horsham and at Broadbridge Heath to take 2,000 properties despite a public consultation this year referring to just 1,250 homes.
The council announced the last-minute rise in housing numbers, including a further 490 homes on brownfield sites, after realising its planning blueprint must run to 2018 and not 2016 as previously thought.
Residents of Broadbridge Heath fear the identity of their village will disappear if its population of 3,000 doubles in size.
The council also decided a secondary school earmarked for land west of Southwater will no longer be built on this site.
The Local Development Framework documents will be submitted to the Government on November 4. Members of the public will then have six weeks until 4.20pm on December 16 to make objections.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
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