Plans to build up to 65 homes in Pulborough have been deferred by Horsham District Council.
The outline application for Stane Street, in Codmore Hill, was given a firm thumbs-down during a meeting of the planning committee on Tuesday (January 23).
But rather than refuse it outright, members agreed that more information and clarification was needed on a number of issues.
While neither Southern Water nor West Sussex Highways had objected to the plans, the committee asked for more details about the area’s sewerage system and road safety.
Further information was also sought about ongoing plans for a crossing over the nearby railway line which forms part of an application for 170 homes which was approved in December 2022.
The council has received 12 letters from the public objecting to the plans, and an objection from Pulborough Parish Council.
Concerns raised included road safety for schoolchildren crossing Stane Street – the A29, pressures on the ‘problematic’ sewerage and drainage systems in the area, and the site not being allocated for housing in the Pulborough Neighbourhood Plan, which has passed independent examination.
