LETTER: Brownfield site for development

In a recent edition of your paper, you published details of a plan for housing on the Novartis car park – located opposite the main site on the north side of Parsonage Road, Horsham.

There is no mention in Cllrs Dawe, Croft, Vickers and Rae’s ‘flawed’ plan of the huge brownfield site south of Parsonage Road – to be vacated by Novartis this year. These councillors will no doubt say that they could not refer to this site because when they pushed their North Horsham green field site through council on April 30, they did not know for certain that this site was a potential area for development.

Or did they? Looking at the HDC website containing the responses to its consultation about the council’s ‘Local Plan’ for housing and economic development – shortly to be considered by a Government inspector – I found a response from CgMs Consulting on behalf of Novartis.