Object

Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundaries

Representation ID: 60870

Received: 15/01/2014

Respondent: Mr Hugh Darwen

Representation Summary:

Objection to the proposed village boundary encompassing parts of existing fields.

Full text:

Sorry for the late comment. I hadn't realised until the Shrewley Parish Council meeting on Jan 14th, 2014, that the new village boundary was open to comment.

I am extremely bothered by the fact that the new boundary, extending beyond the existing houses up to the railway, takes in a certain amount of land from existing fields. We had always been under the mistaken impression that there was an existing boundary separating the villages from its surrounding fields. Now a proposal has been made to take away about 2/3 of a hectare of that genuinely "green" green belt land and expose it to development.