Take Action!

Fields of Southwater, West Sussex
Photography by John Parsons

What can you do?...

This is a dynamic situation and Save Rural Southwater is working together with the Southwater community to make sure everyone is well informed, so that we can actively scrutinise the actions of Horsham District Council and ensure our voices are heard and heeded.

Together we can make a difference...

OBJECT NOW!

...to Berkeley Homes planning application for 1000+ in Southwater

Objections must be submitted HERE

in the comments section

by Thursday 26th March.

View our guide on how to object and what to say here >

Also, ask questions of:

Southwater Parish Council: enquiry@southwater-pc.gov.uk

Horsham District Councillors:

Councillor Peter van der Borgh: peter.vanderborgh@horsham.gov.uk

Councillor Claire Vickers: claire.vickers@horsham.gov.uk

Chair of the Horsham District Council Planning (North) Committee

Mr. Len Ellis-Brown: len.ellis-brown@horsham.gov.uk

Your local MP

John Milne: john.milne.mp@parliament.uk

Take the opportunity to meet your MP and councillors at surgery events.

Email your councillors

Liberal Democrat Councillors were very vocal in their election campaigns in attacking the Tory development plans for the village and stated that the “Lib Dems don’t want the same flawed plan all over again after the election”.

As was repeatedly pointed out to the Lib Dem Councillors, there was no Tory plan to build more houses in/around the village. The Conservative Councillors did not support the draft plan put forward by HDC planning officers which would have imposed more houses, so it was never put forward for consultation and never became a Tory or any other plan and to state that there was a Tory plan was simply misleading. Just like promising a school which the Lib Dems under questioning acknowledged they did not control and could not guarantee.

Our Lib Dem Councillors continue to maintain that their plan, for indeed having approved the draft and put it out for consultation this is properly described as a Lib Dem plan, is good for the village, but they fail to clarify why it is good, other than to repeat that it was better than a Tory plan which never in fact existed. Residents might wish to ask our Councillors to explain why their plan is so good for the village.

Southwater North

Peter van der Borgh (Lib Dem) - peter.vanderborgh@horsham.gov.uk

Councillor Claire Vickers (Con) - claire.vickers@horsham.gov.uk

Southwater South and Shipley

Colette Blackburn (Lib Dem) - colette.blackburn@horsham.gov.uk

Alexander Jeffery (Lib Dem) - alex.jeffery@horsham.gov.uk