Richard W Symonds
Richard W Symonds
9 April, 2025
Opinion

Letter to the editor: Call for sanity has been ignored by Homes England over land west of Ifield

A call for sanity has been ignored yet again by master developer Homes England [‘Public exhibition to be held on plans for 3000 West of Ifield homes’, Crawley Observer, April 8].

From The Archives [4 years ago{ - Crawley Observer - July 21 2021

On left: Homes England’s West of Ifield masterplan - with 3000 houses to be built on St Margaret’s Ancient Parish Fields and Ifield Golf Club [Ifield Brook Meadows is on the right of the picture] On right: Homes England’s West of Ifield masterplan outlined in red (showing the proposed Western Relief Road - in thick pink.
On left: Homes England’s West of Ifield masterplan - with 3000 houses to be built on St Margaret’s Ancient Parish Fields and Ifield Golf Club [Ifield Brook Meadows is on the right of the picture] On right: Homes England’s West of Ifield masterplan outlined in red (showing the proposed Western Relief Road - in thick pink. Credit: Screenshot by Richard W. Symonds

The Homes England exhibition is ahead of its planning application for West of Ifield - which includes St Margaret’s Ancient Parish Fields and Ifield Golf Club.

From The Archives - ‘Thousands of homes not wanted’, Crawley Observer, July 6 2022
From The Archives - ‘Thousands of homes not wanted’, Crawley Observer, July 6 2022 Credit: Photo by Richard W. Symonds

The Planning Inspector has yet to give Homes England’s monstrous masterplan planning permission.

There is now a call within the community to cancel the exhibition and reject the planning application.

It was an insane masterplan 4 years ago - and it’s an insane masterplan now.

Richard W. Symonds

The Ifield Society

Ifield Street, Ifield Village

Crawley, West Sussex