Mr Gummidge,
Thought you might like some more of my musings
Dear Eco-Towns team,
Unfortunately, I feel I have to write to you again to express my frustration and to request that the Ford, so called eco town is removed from the list of possible sites.
I have made other points regarding this ill thought through development in previous letters, but this time I would like to raise the following question.
How is the development to stop the new houses being bought as second homes? and therefore not providing the much needed extra housing for local people we are told we need.
This is what has happened to large percentage of the new riverside apartments built in Littlehampton recently, so why should it not happen at Ford? After all it is a beautiful site, close to Clymping beach the only non-built up stretch of south coast between Brighton and Bournemouth and within easy reach of both Arundel and Chichester.
Are we to sacrifice our farmland, so eco-second home owners can visit Ford two or three times a year?
I did put this question to Developers at their presentation on Saturday the 21st June on the Airstrip (The only actual piece of concrete and not farmland on the proposed site) and their response was. "Oh we hadn’t thought of that”
Makes you wonder what else they haven’t thought of.
Thank you for your time, I hope you take this letter and the recommendations you make as seriously as they deserve. Remember once built upon the site will be developed forever.
Yours Sincerely
Neil Champion
1 comment:
That's a very good point, and if house prices continue to fall as predicted, an "affordable home" could end up being "a nice little holiday home", or even a time-share on the Costa del Clymping!
Very green though ... no car-use or CO2 for 49 weeks of the year.
Seriously though, I've seen some of the flat-pack shoe boxes that pass as "affordable homes" and a holiday chalet is just about what they would be good for.
Better not give the developers any ideas though ...
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