Town could be a ‘dying tree’

Well, here we go again, another version of a Local Plan with even more new housing proposed for the Warwick area. Whilst the article by Eddy Murray was excellent in itself, the subject did make for desponding reading. It brought to mind the tactics of the EU; if at first you do not get the answer you want, try, try and try again until you do. And, if need be, ask the question in a different way so that the result is a confirmation of what the people asking the question wanted in the first place.

Over the years I have responded to more Local Plans, and Core Strategies than I can recall. The information is then considered, detailed consultation information issued, then the next proposal seems to make things worse for local people than it was before. To all councillors, please remember you are not playing a paper game to ensure things look pretty on a map, you are dealing with the lives of real people in a real environment.

If the infrastructure is not planned and in place to support any new development then serious problems will arise. If brown field sites within the existing conurbation are not utilised before the more lucrative, (to the developers), green field sites are released, then the town concerned can become like a slowly dying tree. It can look OK on the outside but the centre is decaying.

So please, councillors, wake up to these facts, ensure open land is not used until existing pre-used land has been “taken-up” by developers; and spread the burden evenly over the whole district so the whole district can grow together; providing that there is the work availability and the infrastructure to cope.

Peter Kerr, Bread and Meat Close, Warwick