HERSTMONCEUX INVASION OF PRIVACY CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF POISONING WELL WATER SUPPLY CONTRARY TO THE OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 AMENITY LOSS AND SOLAR HEATING PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS WEALDEN COUNCIL

PRIVACY, SOLAR HEATING & LOSS OF AMENITY

A 70 house application should seek to take advantage of solar heating, while preserving the privacy of residents

LACKING PRIVACY - Any houses built here will be overlooked by anyone using Herstmonceux Museum. The reverse is also true. How will planners overcome the loss of amenity for Herstmonceux Museum and ensure privacy for houses in this field. Will it mean windows facing away from the Museum? Would that not mean that the usual way of solar heating a house would be prevented. Why? Because the view shown here is looking north, hence, houses should be facing this way (towards the Museum) to capture incoming sunshine. This is the view from the rear (balcony) of the Museum towards the village.

The general rule is that houses should be built facing south. If that is the case here, they will all be overlooked by Herstmonceux Museum - and occupiers of the Museum and visitors will be overlooking the proposed 70 houses.

The field next door to the west, has no such problems and is far more suitable for accommodating new houses, with access to the A271 via an entrance that is much safer on a compare and contrast basis. Planners should be looking for the most suitable sites, not grasping any proposal that comes along no matter what obstacles would normally prevent development.

View from the balcony facing into Lime Park, looking sideways into the field at Lime Cross. Once again, all of the houses that might be built on the south-west end of the field will be overlooked from a significantly higher vantage point.

Lime Cross, Herstmonceux March 2015 - Surveyors drive home a borehole. The water table was confirmed here on site as being 4 meters from the surface, meaning that this area of land also shares the water with Herstmonceux Museum. Herstmonceux Museum does not have mains water supplies, but relies on an ancient well adjacent to the field the subject of this planning application. It seems from this that any houses built here are bound to cause long term contamination to the water table. Imagine a leak from the soil system into the water table. How would that affect those locally that depend on water from wells? Poisoning, or attempting to poison, or annoy any person by poison, is a criminal offence under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861.

INCOME FROM TOURISM

Tourism is a long term earner for Herstmonceux. It is well known that tourists plan holidays according to a theme. The theme in London, or London's top ten include: