Monday 11 February 2013

Deadline extended

Good News!

The deadline for submission of comments on the revised planning application for the desecration of Hempshill Fields has been extended to 25th February.  Actually I may have misread the notice first time around as the deadline of 25th applies to neighbours only. 

Whatever, this gives us another couple of weeks to get those objections registered...again.

Whilst they may have tinkered around with the number of houses and width of the tramway, the revised application does nothing to address the key point which is that Hempshill Fields is a valuable community asset and no amount of tweaking will save the fields for posterity.

If they do eventually build all over the fields it will be interesting to see what they tell prospective purchasers about the likelihood of a tramway being built right past their front door, or of the delightful lake frontage every time it rains heavily.  And in case you were wondering, if they build sewers to serve the new homes (which I fear they will have to), when it floods it will not just be rainwater which fills the streets!

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