Fed up of housing issues – but do we have enough fight?

Residents have indeed had enough of the housing issues outlined in your campaign, but many are now tired of the fight and feel nothing will ever change so therefore are no longer trying. Apathy is widespread.

The issues and symptoms are at local level but the true underlying crux of the matter and root cause is at parliamentary level. If PM Johnson stated at such conference we should not be building on green fields, then he needs to get his minions in order and cascade that instruction down through the lines to local planning authorities, and especially to the Planning Inspectorate under the Secretary of State Michael Gove.

Your campaign launch piece outlines most of the issues, but in relation to wastewater and sewage I should point out that it is no longer a question of ‘… whether our sewage system can accommodate... ’but an established fact supported by substantive, verifiable evidence.

Just down the corridor of power sits the Secretary of State for Housing, still taking us down the path of environmental destruction of our countryside with a team of planning inspectors who override any local decisions to do otherwise under a biased NPPF.

You ask the readership how they can help, but the reality is that it may already be too late.

Many further potential developments on ‘green fields’ have already been given outline approval and are currently at various reserved matters stages and will kick-off when the developer decides to do so.

These will be almost impossible to stop I suspect, but we should endeavour to do so until and unless truly sustainable by our environment and infrastructure.

So, lets bombard Messrs Johnson and Co. and of course our own MPs accordingly. Emphasis on bombard!

KEITH MEADMORE

A’ Beckets Avenue, Aldwick