Alarm bells ring over airfield plans

The residents of Ford, Climping and Yapton have heard with considerable concern the apparent resurrection of development plans for building on some of the same area as the discredited Eco-Town project (Gazette, May 9).
By The Newsroom
Published 25th May 2013, 13:00 BST

This proposal is for building 700 new houses on green land, without any upgrade to the infrastructure.

The whole area is already blighted by high volumes of traffic, much of which is HGVs travelling to the Viridor recycling plant and the sewage treatment plant next to it. There is also considerable traffic generated by skip lorries servicing other nearby facilities. The old Tarmac plant which is adjacent has been bought by a waste company, so the probability is for yet another set of lorry movements each day.

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The addition of 700 houses to a parish of some 400 totally changes the scale and make-up of the area and changes it from the present rural environment to a suburban one without the roads or facilities or indeed any reason to exist, as all the residents would have to travel out of the area for work and shopping.

Something that is also of concern is that such a proposal should come from parish level and purport to be the product of local wishes, rather than those of local landowners and Wates Construction.

Brian West

Ford Road,

Ford

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