Councillor's desperate plea to growth area landowners
Monday, 22nd July 2013.
Haverhill county councillor Tony Brown has fired another salvo at the Vision 2031 plans for Haverhill, and in particular the North-East Haverhill development of 2,500 homes on Great Wilsey Farm Land, owned by the Pelly family.
Cllr Brown was among residents who went to a consultation day at Haverhill Library on Saturday to see details of the Vision 2031 document, prepared by St Edmundsbury Borough Council and now ready to be presented to a Government planning inspector for approval.
It outlines how Haverhill should grow over the next 20 years.
He has now written an open letter to the Pelly family about the development proposals in the document.
In it he says there are 'real and justifiable concerns that these houses will appear on the hill to the south of Kedington village, a bit like the Zulu warriors on the hill above Rorke’s Drift, at any moment threatening to cascade down and overrun the defenders'.
He adds: "Why not build 500 fewer houses, move back the boundary from Kedington and please make sure we have at least an extension to East Town Park towards Calford Green."
Cllr Brown talks again of his disappointment about the contents of Vision 2031.
He writes to the Pellys: "I went to the Vision 2031 open day event, to have a look at the plans for the future development of your land at Wilsey farm on Saturday.
"I have seen them many times before but I went again partially in the naïve hope that maybe I was wrong in my previous viewings of the documents, but no, my heart sank, they were still the same - 2500 houses with no real infrastructure, just tenuous coloured blobs on a map with possible shops, possible school.
"The only definite is houses, a link road to possibly cut through an established tree belt, no East Town Park extension to compensate for our loss of green environment, just more of the same that we have had for the last 40 years."
Cllr Brown was among residents who went to a consultation day at Haverhill Library on Saturday to see details of the Vision 2031 document, prepared by St Edmundsbury Borough Council and now ready to be presented to a Government planning inspector for approval.
It outlines how Haverhill should grow over the next 20 years.
He has now written an open letter to the Pelly family about the development proposals in the document.
In it he says there are 'real and justifiable concerns that these houses will appear on the hill to the south of Kedington village, a bit like the Zulu warriors on the hill above Rorke’s Drift, at any moment threatening to cascade down and overrun the defenders'.
He adds: "Why not build 500 fewer houses, move back the boundary from Kedington and please make sure we have at least an extension to East Town Park towards Calford Green."
Cllr Brown talks again of his disappointment about the contents of Vision 2031.
He writes to the Pellys: "I went to the Vision 2031 open day event, to have a look at the plans for the future development of your land at Wilsey farm on Saturday.
"I have seen them many times before but I went again partially in the naïve hope that maybe I was wrong in my previous viewings of the documents, but no, my heart sank, they were still the same - 2500 houses with no real infrastructure, just tenuous coloured blobs on a map with possible shops, possible school.
"The only definite is houses, a link road to possibly cut through an established tree belt, no East Town Park extension to compensate for our loss of green environment, just more of the same that we have had for the last 40 years."
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