Please refer to the following as my OBJECTIONS to the Specific Section of the Preferred Options Booklet
Part of the document which I am responding to: - PO4 Location 11
Heading: - Woodside Farm, Tachbrook Road.
I OBJECT FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:-
The way that WDC have presented the Preferred Options Plan is designed to persuade the public from easily objecting.
We are only permitted to object to small segments of the plan depending on our own (sometimes selfish) reasons.
If we object to the WHOLE plan based on the gross number of housing in the very vague guestimate then we are faced with submitting a raft of objections.
Clearly WDC have got this all wrong. As members of the whole community affected by the proposals we have an interest in every aspect and area of the plan and not just the parochial issues.
This looks like a repeat of the WDC method of limiting the objections to their intentions, which is aimed at allowing individuals to vote for the things they dislike the least.
The truth is I object to the whole of the plan because it has not been thought through intelligently. Some individual/s have made wild predictions based on unfound evidence. They have then used this to make it appear as realistic requirements.
Only time will tell us of the needs for housing in future years. It is not good enough to make these wild predictions then turn them into a developers dream.
We need a flexible plan that allows small numbers of houses to be built as and when they are required, and not mass housing schemes that rip out the heart of communities.
These plans are totally unrealistic and would have serious consequences if they are allowed to proceed.
They will not provide employment. Rather, they will take employment away as developers bring in their own lablur force.
They will put demands on our schools, doctors and hospitals that are already overstretched.
I am now talking of the proposals as a whole so would like this to be a general objection that should be seen by all visitors to the WDC website and not just a specific area.
We do not wish to see masses of houses built largely as investments for rich people who wish to rent.
Changes to Plan:
Scrap the plan to construct mass housing and only allow small developments by local builders.
To support this we have an army of local builders who are engaged in providing a service to house owners in extending rather than new build. There is a good reason for this in that they cannot afford a new larger houses.
These local builders can fill any requirements for the number of new homes that will be truly required.