‘Developers are bees around a honey pot’

TWENTY one thousand extra houses – each home to an average family of two adults and two children – equates to 86,000 souls, that’s over four times the total population of Leek, and our council seriously proposes to squeeze this many people into our already overcrowded city with its congested roads.

This isn’t to cope with the natural growth in local population – that’s declining – but to suck people into our city to serve some half baked economic forecast based on the pre-brexit, free movement of people that’s now totally redundant.

So, in reality, we no longer need anywhere near this number of new houses.

To the council though, this quantity of extra homes would give them around an extra £2 million a month in council tax, and when have they in the last 20 years or so put the welfare of the people before this sort of money?

So unless we stop them, they’ll push ahead with this plot, aided and abetted by their developer friends who’ll be hovering over every patch of green space like bees around a honey pot, while avoiding those brownfield sites we really could do with being developed. ROY BENNETT LONGTON