What is it with NWLDC? It seems like they are intent on destroying anything and everything to do with Castle Donington. As a Coucil they are very poor, we pay some of the highest Council Tax payments in the area, and yet recieve very little in return. When with these people learn that not everyone wants to live in a metropolis, that we either moved here or like myself born here and did not want to move away, because we like our village. Now dont get me wrong, I;m no Ludite and I know and accept things must move on, but not of the detrement to our village.
It was only a short while ago NWLDC wanted to build that big monstrosity of a storage depot on ajacent land arrable land next to the airport (what is the situation on that?) is there a coincidence that the Chair of NWLDC lives in Kegworth and her husband is Vice Chair of the planning committee? As for this latest fiasco, 1,000 extra homes which even if you said on average 2 people per house but it will be alot more than that thats an extra 2,000 extra people.
Now you could argue that local businesses will benifit, so where do we put the extra car park spaces? Coz make no doubt these people are not going to walk from Park Lane into the Village, and then theres the Doctors, think its difficult getting an appointment at the moment, at the over subscribed surgury? just wait for another 2,000 more people not to mention the Dentist and the vets and not forgetting the schools either.
These peopl need to stop look and listen, what about building on land near Coalville ex pit town that has plenty of land? that won't happen though because you don't mess on your own doorstep, and it certainly wont happen in Kegworth anywhere near to where the aforementioned Councillors live thats for sure.
This Council need to talk to the people that put them in positions of authority, because if they dont, then we can always vote them out, and they they wont be able to fit their snouts in the trough of public money.
Denzel whilst i agree with you over Castle Donington you are wrong with coalville we are facing thousands here a lot more than castle donington but the exact same threat on our identity and services. Whitwick and Thringstone will lose village identity, Hugglescote and Ellistown will be linked to coalville. |Nobody wants these houses other than NWLDC who will recieve a huge amount of extra income from council tax. We are all under threat and we MUST fight this together everyone in NW Leics showing a united front against the District Councils plans. THe big worry for me is most of the planning committee are from ashby an area surprisingly with no major treat of housing.
The big question is why do we need these houses? How many people do you know locally that have nowhere to live
We moved to Castle Donington in August last year and i guess we're still getting settled but we love it. We were attracted to the 'village / community' feel of the place and its proximity to the major road networks. Its great that green fields are just on your doorstep (although not for long as we look out to the rear of Fox Road).
I would agree with what has been said, especially the apparent 'need' for more housing, what with so many 'new builds' still unsold, just existing as shells at the moment. I'm not sure where these housing figures come from? and just how accurate they are? - I grew up in Loughborough and over the years have seen the town lose its community feel as houses were snapped up during the 'buy to let' boom period. It is now 'studentville' and during the summer it can be a bit of a ghost town when they all go home. Hathern and Quorn are virtually part of the town due to all the new housing (which were all opposed at the time but nobody seems to listen).
From the short time we've lived in Donington i hear the schools are full, there are no real leisure facilities as such, the doctors practice is full, so in my view the village simply couldn't cope with all these new houses. I'm all for progress, but sensible and controlled and not to the detriment of the village and local community.
Anyway, i'll stop rambling! Just thought i'd introduce myself! cheers, for now....
I don't know if it's even possible, but why not target every member of the "planning Commitee" that is for, these proposals and have a campaign aginst them to stop their re election at the next local elections?
I don't think we can blame NWLDC - they get housing targets placed on them by government, they have no choice in the matter. they've got to find land to build homes in nwl - it's just a question of where
I don't think we can blame NWLDC - they get housing targets placed on them by government, they have no choice in the matter. they've got to find land to build homes in nwl - it's just a question of where
Course you can, they need to grow some Cahoonas and say NO! Remeber they are the representatives of the people and are there to do as we want, not what they want and if they don't do what we want, then you use the power you have at the Ballot box. How right is it that the deputy chair iof the planning committee just happens to be the husband of the chair of the whole council? Surely the words " Conflict of Interest" spring to mind especially as the said deputy chair alledgedly came up with the proposals for the montrosity of the Storage Depot at the side of the Airport, that will take up the size of 10 Football Pitches
Hi - yes in principle i agree, local authorities should be able to say 'no'. And I'm sure nwldc would if they could. They could do what rushcliffe are doing and say 'no' - but this places them no at risk of legal challenge. They'll lose and guess who foots the bill - the tax payer via council tax. If you want the council to say 'no' we have to be prepared to pay for the costs of losing a legal challenge (highly likley given government housing targets). My point is don't target the messenger, i.e nwldc but target national government. we need an mp to come to our meeting
Perhaps the Government might look at the reasons behind the "need" for so much extra housing across the country. The population of this small island is burgeoning. At what point do we say, enough is enough? They will not be happy until they have concreted over every blade of grass (protecting the areas where they live, of course), wrecked small communities, isolated people from nature, put immense pressure on thinly spread and underfunded public "services" and generally ruined the quality of life for the majority of the population. Proposals like these at Donington are just the start. Give it a generation or two and this country will be unrecognisable.
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