A blog opposed to the whole eco-town project. Shortlisted sites are: Bordon Hampshire; Coltishall Norfolk; Curborough Staffordshire; Elsenham Essex; Ford West Sussex; Hanley Grange Cambridgeshire; Imerys nr St Austell Cornwall;
Leeds city region West Yorkshire; Manby Lincolnshire;
Marston Vale and New Marston Bedfordshire; Middle Quinton Warwickshire; Pennbury Leicestershire;
Rossington South Yorkshire; Rushcliffe Nottinghamshire;
Weston Otmoor Oxfordshire.
I have lived in the real Curborough, Staffordshire for 25 years (we have the road signs at each end of our small community to prove it!)
The proposed eco-town is the latest attempt by developers to make use of part of the former Fradley airfield for large-scale housing development. A few years back one member company of the Curborough Consortium (the four-firm group behind the latest proposals) put in a planning application for a landfill site on part of the proposed area of land -thankfully it did not progress.
The road infrastructure round about the proposed development area is already regularly choked by vast amounts of commuter traffic and haulage companies. The nearby A38 trunk road is extremely busy all through the day and is often excessiviely busy at peak times such as immediately pre and post school and office hours.
Entry to rural roads for householders living around the proposed eco-town site is regularly compromised by queuing lines of haulage lorries and trucks waiting to access security gates on the neaby Fradley Industrial Estate.
The building of a new community on the proposed eco-town site would only add further chaos to an already overstretched local road network.
Additionally, the siting of the proposed eco-town would be only a couple of fields away from the built-up area of the Historic City of Lichfield to the south and would also be only a couple of fields away from the rural village of Fradley to the north - a village which has already been extended southwards over recent years by large-scale housing development.
A full-page advertisment in the Lichfield Mercury last week, taken out by H.M. Government and therefore paid for by the English taxpayer, stated that the proposed Curborough eco-town will be on a brownfield site that was part of the former RAF Lichfield.
This is untrue inasmuch as for more than a quarter of a century, almost all of the proposed site has be greenfield, under continual agricultural use. As our constituent MP has stated, this is a misrepresentation of facts and should be of interest to Trading Standards officials.
Just a few major points(I could go on!)that should be noted by distant over-idealogical and urbanised politicians who ought to know by now that E.F. Schumacher was right, all those years ago, "Small Is Beautiful."
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I have lived in the real Curborough, Staffordshire for 25 years (we have the road signs at each end of our small community to prove it!)
The proposed eco-town is the latest attempt by developers to make use of part of the former Fradley airfield for large-scale housing development. A few years back one member company of the Curborough Consortium (the four-firm group behind the latest proposals) put in a planning application for a landfill site on part of the proposed area of land -thankfully it did not progress.
The road infrastructure round about the proposed development area is already regularly choked by vast amounts of commuter traffic and haulage companies.
The nearby A38 trunk road is extremely busy all through the day and is often excessiviely busy at peak times such as immediately pre and post school and office hours.
Entry to rural roads for householders living around the proposed eco-town site is regularly compromised by queuing lines of haulage lorries and trucks waiting to access security gates on the neaby Fradley Industrial Estate.
The building of a new community on the proposed eco-town site would only add further chaos to an already overstretched local road network.
Additionally, the siting of the proposed eco-town would be only a
couple of fields away from the built-up area of the Historic City of Lichfield to the south and would also be only a couple of fields away from the rural village of Fradley to the north - a village which has already been extended southwards over recent years by large-scale housing development.
A full-page advertisment in the Lichfield Mercury last week, taken out by H.M. Government and therefore paid for by the English taxpayer, stated that the proposed
Curborough eco-town will be on a brownfield site that was part of the former RAF Lichfield.
This is untrue inasmuch as for more than a quarter of a century, almost all of the proposed site has be greenfield, under continual agricultural use.
As our constituent MP has stated, this is a misrepresentation of facts and should be of interest to Trading Standards officials.
Just a few major points(I could go on!)that should be noted by distant over-idealogical and urbanised politicians who ought to know by now that E.F. Schumacher was right, all those years ago, "Small Is Beautiful."
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