An Interesting Letter...

Dear Sirs,

The Yapton/Ford/Clymping Housing Estate (aka Ford Eco Town)

I attended a Parish Meeting yesterday in Yapton. Everyone at the meeting was most distressed to hear what Mr.Trumble had to tell us.

Mr. Trumble Is an extremely well respected member of our community and has given freely of his time for years and years – certainly the 21 years I have lived here. He told us that he writes in his local Neighbourhood Watch magazine.

He told the meeting that he had received a telephone call from someone from your organisation whilst he was snoozing on a Sunday afternoon, and in this telephone call he was berated for writing a piece in the magazine about the so-called Ford “Eco” town. The gentleman “tearing Mr. Trumble off a strip” told him that he had received three complaints about his “political” piece in the magazine.

It was the opinion of the meeting last night that Mr. Trumble was doing exactly the correct thing in stating that the Ford Eco town was not a few houses confined to the old Airfield, but warning people of the impending catastrophe that was being proposed for our three villages. The 10,000 - 2000 houses that are proposed to be built on the fields separating our three villages would no doubt bring about dire social problems, not least an increase in crime, which of course is what Neighbourhood Watch is surely all about.

The Ford Airfield Vision Hub consists of three landowners and three businessmen, a Mr. Hall, a Mr. Penfold and a Mr. Dixon. The three landowners have tried to sell the land in question for development on many occasions but have always quite rightly been prevented from doing so by Arun District Council’s proper planning procedures. By tagging this huge housing estate with the label “eco” they have been able to bypass local council and have taken their proposals direct to Government who of course are desperate to be seen as “green”.

Strangely enough the complaints to Neighbourhood Watch came from the three businessmen involved in the multi-million pound project – Mr. Harold Hall, Mr. John Penfold and Mr. Tony Dixon.

I would be very grateful if you would write a letter of apology to Mr. Trumble and send a copy to me in the enclosed stamped addressed envelope.

Yours sincerely,

Cc Nick Herbert MP, (Arundel) Nick Gibb MP (Bognor & Littlehampton) Caroline Flint, Arun District Council, ,Mr. Harold Hall, Mr. John Penfold Mr. Tony Dixon.