Proposal Objection
Site No CFS141 – 231 houses proposed (fields at Stewards Elm Farm)
Site No CFS072 – 167 houses proposed (field to the right looking up Cagefield Rd)
Site No CFS073 – 74 houses proposed (field on the left looking up Cagefield Rd)
Site No CFS113 – Mill Lane – 39 houses proposed
Site No CFS114 – Behind the Cherry Tree – 39 houses proposed
Having found it very hard to navigate your Spatial Options website in order to object (not everyone is IT literate enough to understand your objection site……but many residents are of the opinion that was precisely the intention!) I though it best to email my objections to your proposals to build on the above listed sites

I am sure by now you have heard all the obvious objections…..yes, our homes are built on an existing flood plain. Therefore to any sensible thinking person, it would be extremely unwise to build anything further on it. The farmers help to minimise risk during bad weather with double ditches etc to help run off and the open land around us helps too as the rate of water soak up is 20 times what it would be if the area was built on.

However, the Environmental Report released only this week should give us all cause to rethink how we are doing things. The sea and river levels are predicted to rise over the next two decades, making living in coastal or river flood plains even more risky. Large scale weather events resulting in flooding are set to become more and more frequent (our own summer so far being an obvious sign and set to get worse) and the only defence we have against our homes being destroyed in the future, is the large expanses of open land around us. Take that away and you leave us and any future residents open to disaster, huge insurance bills and misery

The contractors are only interested in buying cheap agricultural land, throwing up as many houses as possible and making as much money as possible. The councils priority appears to be fulfilling Government housing quotas however they possibly can, with the Government giving little thought to the disastrous impact heir actions may have on the people that already live here….places that they themselves have never visited, don’t live in and are just a blue patch on their map

Our way of life is simple, with no amenities or frills but our community is strong, historic and beautiful and we are very proud of our roots here which for many of us go back over generations. The information you have for us seems very inaccurate. Even your documents covering the 1-5 ratings for access to facilities out here is wrong, with Primary school rating as a 4 (good) Anyone who knows this village well would know we have one primary school….difficult to access unless you drive and with the capacity for only 84 pupils and already has 95!!! Just how many of these 550 homes are likely to have children wanting to go to an already over subscribed village school!!!!

I could go on listing the ways in which this proposal is utter folly and how your rating system is inaccurate but I think the Council is well aware
I would urge you therefore to look to build on more suitable sites, brown sites, old commercial sites and spend money on getting old unoccupied property up to scratch and inhabited. Building on Greenbelt should always be prohibited lest this “green and pleasant land” become nothing more that concrete. Leave the Ward Council some credibility with its voting public