Clanfield – WrAnTz

Fears over future of field at centre of three Hampshire villages

Fears over future of field at centre of three Hampshire villages – Portsmouth News.

The developers are out for one thing and one thing only, to line their own pockets and the sad thing is that our local planners are letting them get away with it. Taylor Wimpey are threatening to build 220 new homes on a beautiful piece of countryside just a short distance away from an existing development of 275 homes.
Lynn McIver, speaking for Taylor Wimpey, has said

‘We are confident that this scheme will provide an attractive and sustainable development of much-needed housing in the area, as well as delivering affordable housing for local people.’

Decimating our local heritage, our beautiful countryside is never “attractive”. Hampshire is being eroded, one plot, one field, one farm at a time. This is just the latest foray by the developers and if allowed to proceed will be a disaster.

A consultation is scheduled to be held in Clanfield Memorial Hall, South Lane, on March 7, from 2pm to 7.30pm.

Be there and make your voices heard.

Fury as lorries park up in lane as work on new estate begins

Do you suppose the developers and planners factor in the misery that residents have to endure when a new development gets underway ?

The additional noise levels, the additional traffic, the dirt and dust that finds its way inside your house and the dirt and mud that is spread along the adjacent roads.

Its a fact of life that you have to consider if you move into a house on an incomplete development.

Its a totally alien concept if you happen to be living in an established environment.

Perhaps there should be a form of compensation that is paid to locals whose lives are disrupted for the duration of the development. A sliding scale based on proximity to the centre point of the development with additional payments based on your living on the main access route. This payment would be funded by the CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy) charged on new development land.

Somehow I can’t see that idea catching on anytime soon.

Fury as lorries park up in lane as work on new estate begins – Environment – Portsmouth News.