News on West of Ifield

The new neighbourhoods at the West of Ifield provide the opportunity to create jobs and working opportunities alongside homes for new and existing residents. Overall, the site has the potential to support 10,000 new jobs.

During our consultation, we asked for your feedback on what type of new jobs should be available in the new neighbourhoods and what working environments you would like to see provided in the area.

Our feedback form asked a specific question about working in the new neighbourhoods which provided pre-set answers. In addition, we also provided an option for respondents to share their own thoughts and suggestions for how working opportunities should look in the West of Ifield.

Here are some of the comments:

“Employment that will keep the natural open spaces: fields, woods and farmland and protection wildlife”

“How is this going to create long term jobs?”

“Although this does not apply to me, it will reflect on my family to have the best alternatives available to them in the future”

In addition to providing individual comments, respondents answered the question ‘What opportunities for working should be provided in the new neighbourhoods?’ The answers to the options provided will help us know how to best design the neighbourhoods in order to offer working opportunities to support new and current residents.

If planning permission is granted, how will we provide these job opportunities?

You can find more information about our plans for working opportunities in our question and answer document here.

Over the coming weeks we will be posting more about the key issues that came out of our public consultation. We have already uploaded a post about open spaces which you can view here .

If you have any questions about the information provided, the consultation or the proposals please get in touch at westofifield@homesengland.gov.uk or 020 8629 7209.