Preparedness for when

ivyleaf

milasavesmoney wrote: »

This is extremely surprising to me. I don't understand why your government would let foreign companies own something so crucial to your infrastructure. :undecided:huh::think: I'm just really astounded. I'm assuming they are owned by companies from EU members? Surely they must be?

We (the electorate) don't understand it either, but no one asked our opinion :mad:

craigywv

thank you all for your lovely words about my dog passing away xxx

mrs-moneypenny

Just got in from work. It's now raining stair rods and in the last 15 mins my water butt has gone from 1/3 full to overflowing. Do need to worry about watering the garden tonight.

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I think disaster comes in many forms and today I discovered that yet another farm, quite a considerable sized plot overall, is being put forward for outline planning permission for a big housing estate within the perimeter of the village. It 's a bigger area than all the other potential sites put together and would be thousands of houses very close to where we live and would close off one of the best walks in the area that's been used as a way through to the centre with the shops a couple of miles away and is going to be a massive impact on us IF it goes ahead. There will be no green spaces at all if the building and applications carry on at the rate they have this spring and will be a disaster for the community here. The existing school, doctors surgeries, dentists etc. are at stretch to serve us all at the moment, how it will be with thousands more people trying to access and use those services if they don't provide more is unthinkable and there wasn't, on the plan I was shown at least, anything of that nature proposed, just hundreds of houses, Disaster!!!!!

mrs-moneypenny

Mrslurcherwalker I'm so sorry to hear that your area is being over built. I can never understand why the councils and governments just ride roughshod over feelings opinions and greenbelt land and seem hellbent on covering every square inch of the country with buildings in their obsession to create n homes for everyone and overpopulating the country to the extent it will become overpopulated and unable to support itself. How are we to have green spaces to allow the country to breathe and for people to enjoy as well as land to grow and graze on if it is all built on.

I know people need homes BUT that is surely where the argument comes from that we are starting to get too many People here and need to set limits

ivyleaf

Lyn Hopefully there might be quite a lot of objections being made to this new estate!

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It's a farm where the farmer is in his 80s and most of it has been covered with greenhouses to grow strawberries and tomatoes for decades. I guess with the imports that come in from the EU and his age and the fact that there are notices up everywhere here from building firms wanting to aquire more land the idea to sell must be attractive to him. This is the fifth large development I've become aware of in the past month, one has been on the books for years and the local council are looking to build a 3,500 house new town on the site of an old institution hospital, the second development some 3 1/2 miles away is in the next authority towards Winchester and that's been approved for 2,500 new homes. The two smaller ones one for 600 homes and one for 200/400 homes are within half a mile and there is already a mega build half finished which currently has 600 new houses within 1/4 mile of the village. The problem is we have many sites here where nurseries/market gardens have gone from trading and they are worth lots of money if sold to builders. I can see WHY builders want to develop land but this is too much, too many and in too short a time frame to make sense. Who is going to buy them? so far it's almost 8,000 new homes without the latest application which could be a couple of thousand more, how on earth can the local infrastructure and amenities accommodate that many new families?

pineapple

That is shocking Mrs L
I thought it was bad enough here in my little village. There are houses being built here and there on former farm land - some of them on a flood plain. There was a big objection to the latter from the local community but all that happened was the developer was asked to reduce the number. Apparently the big cheese in the area - himself a farmer and previously head of the parish council supported it so that was that.:mad:
One wonders if they will even sell. Some lovely properties here have been on the market for ages.

Cappella

The current amenities WON'T be able to support the new developments hugely increased populations. I live in an urban area, it's not scenic but it's put butter on our bread since we moved to take up teaching posts here 40 years ago and so I feel a little loyalty to it. However every empty space ( brownfield sites) has been redeveloped over the past fifteen years, and every new house has either been tenanted or bought. the local infrastructure and public amenities have failed to keep place with the population explosion, and it can now take up to three weeks to get, for example, a GPs appointment.
The same situation has affected my family in Lincolnshire. What, when we were growing up, were small villages have now grown alarmingly since the laws governing farming and green belt land were 'eased'' by the last government.

I am truly sorry that you are experiencing this MrsLurcherWalker. It's insanity that some urban areas are falling into decay, houses empty and deteriorating, whilst rural and partially rural areas are being redeveloped.
BUT given the chiuce between living here, and living in rural Hampshire I know which I would choose were I able to afford it. There will undoubtedly be a demand for the houses being built in your area.
And, cynically, I have to say that there may well be generous financial remuneration for the developers, and possibly some of the councillors involved in the project.

It's Aldo madness that viable growing land be built on. Our ability to feed ourselves becomes increasingly fragile.

Hope the plans aren't passed, for your sake.

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we'll just have to wait and see what happens I guess, of course there will be many objections from the village but I doubt they will be heeded if the government whip is to build more houses. I just wish they'd put more thought into the lives of the people who are already living here and those who will come to fill the new builds. The last consultation I went to said when asked that yes they did put money into local infrastructure but they paid it to the local authority and it was up to that authority what they did with it. We can't get an appointment at the local doctors surgery within a month NOW I dread to think how bad it could get with perhaps 10,000 more houses so possibly 40,000 more patients all with the same needs as we have trying to access an already stressed NHS, education and Dental systems let alone the extra wear on roads that are already full of potholes and other damage. And still the government cuts payments to local authorities to fulfil their austerity vision, it's MADNESS!!!