11:06am Thursday 26th August 2010
The letter from R W Hodges (Aug 18) is a classic example of the pot calling the kettle black.
He believes protesters at the rape of public open spaces in Basildon have failed to think through their arguments and then lists perceived advantages.
Clearing fields and building houses “provides jobs for the construction industry”.
Most of the workers are from outside the area and the work is transient.
He then claims this will mean more money spent in the area and more shops.
Where has he been for the years that many of us have been fighting to get the owners of Laindon Shopping Centre to meet the current needs?
“When the houses are built we will need more schools.” Great. Where are we to build them? By then, any available land will have been gobbled up by greedy developers interested in just one thing: A fast buck.
If he looks along Laindon High Road, he might spot that a huge new estate has been built where there was, guess what, a school.
And the same developer wants to build hundreds more on the Archer Road section of the old school playing fields.
To compound the muddled thinking, he states that because of this expansion in housing and the influx of new people “we will need yet more affordable housing for the next generation”.
Next stop green belt land?
Victor T York
Buller Road
Laindon
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