This is preposterous. How are these people thinking given the effects of in the last flooding events in the surrounding area?? Have they not learned that concreting areas of this nature gives rise to immediate surface runoff and hence the increased risk of natural disasters on a localized scale. Have they not thought out the effects of global warming, obviously not, the need to keep as much vegetation as is possible to increase levels of oxygen and not decrease them as this development would. It is the multiplier effects that we have to look at: increase in fuel uses give rise to green house gases, increase in traffic due to more cars and more congestion and adding to green house gases, increase in the amount of sewage and rubbish to be disposed of and the increase of methane gas and increase in gren house gases. The present sewage systems are struggling to cope and this is simply adding to greater events in times of excessive rainfall. The roads are not built to support extra traffic as is obvious to all.
Leave what should be the green belt alone. Look at brownfield sites and develop these. Surly common sense should prevail. What idiots would build and add to flooding problems???? Is this the way forward. I am definitely anti this development.