SAVE LAND FOR FUTURE
ALTHOUGH I don’t live in Accrington I spent the last 15 years of my working life in Accrington town centre and, like Tony Kipax (Facebook comments, August 3 ‘Leader sounds alarm as figures predict big fall in population’,), I love it.
Now well into my 80s I still do most of my shopping therein.
Regarding the predicted drop in the Hyndburn population with rises in other places combined with housing shortages etc. (‘Welcome Fall’ Letters, August 3) I would say this: if it was left to some speculators, all England would be covered with concrete, tarmac and bricks just so long as there was a quick profit.
They and councils that allow it, put the almighty dollar above England’s food security, through their shortsighted plans to build on valuable greenfields.
Politicians should fight tooth and nail to protect our greenbelt land, sadly not, and don’t seem to realise all this plundering of our countryside is not in our national interest.
In the UK many hundreds of thousands of homes stand empty, including in Hyndburn, this being reported some time ago.
Bring these homes into use first and cut the waffle.
All new builds need to be on brownfield sites.
With the UK importing much of the food we eat you don’t need the IQ of Einstein to understand our countryside is the source of our most precious industry - food.
Don’t let England become a profitable enterprise for the few and a romantic ruin for the majority.
Save rural land for future generations.
Leave our valuable farmland to grow food for the people year upon year as it has always been. Let’s cherish what countryside we still have left. Bert Hardwick Whalley