Winchfield SHLAA Sites in Hart District Hampshire
It seems the Telegraph has picked up on the amount of houses we need to build in Hart, and has published a letter from a Mr Andrew Robinson of Hart District. The letter and other similar letters from other parts of the country can be found here.
Mr Robinson’s letter reproduced below:
SIR – I see that Hart, in Hampshire, where I happen to live, has come top once again in an annual survey of the best place to live in Britain.
However, its reign will soon end, as the local council is about to plonk 7,500 houses – or more if we are forced to accept a proportion of neighbouring areas’ allocation – in the district over the next 15 years.
The council is simply carrying out the Government’s orders, which go against David Cameron’s pledges on localism and sustainable development.
We in Hart have had over 35 years of urbanisation without infrastructure, mostly imposed via sham public inquiries. Housing and population have grown by around 11 per cent every 10 years, with an additional increase of up to 37 per cent predicted by 2030, by which time Hart’s roads will be almost permanently gridlocked.
This is a small district and these housing impositions should be tailing off by now. Instead we have a Government committed to infinite expansion in a finite land mass. We are going to end up with a Conservative conurbation stretching from London to the south coast.
Well said Mr. Robinson.
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Submitted my response to the plan, but have to say what a joke. Irrespective of only being able to vote in varying degrees of approval, the whole thing is so deliberately tied down with endless abbreviation and references to (extensive and lengthy) additional hyperlinked documents that it would likely take days of study before the layman could realistically respond. Deliberate obfuscation is how it feels to this layman, and it stinks.