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What local people are saying about the eco-town plans
"It is the most eco-UNfriendly proposal I have ever
heard of"
"Well
clearly the site is NOT brownfield. This is a smokescreen and fools no-one"
"The air field runways are to be retained for the Sunday Market and the
Saturday Boot Sale. Where is the sense of this area being retained in the
middle of an ECO Town for the markets and the petrol pollution it brings
with it"
"This is not a new
proposal but one which appears to have been doing the rounds for the best
part of 10 years. When you cut away the PR and marketing hype, you're
looking essentially at a greenfield residential development"
"The plan Caroline Flint has strangely shortlisted is one previously turned
down by local planning, now dressed with eco-friendly add-ons such as
bicycle paths and the potential to harness the nearby Arun River's tidal
flow for energy"
"The
government's proposal for a new town, subverting all the normal, legal
constraints of the requirement for planning-permission, in
West Sussex, is monstrous. I often reflect that the
powers of local, elected planning-authorities are one of the few remaining
vestiges of democracy in Britain (which is now ruled by the EU, its
thinly-disguised surrogate at Westminster and a host of EU-compliant QUANGOs)
but this vestige too is threatened, of course, by "local government reform"
and creation of EU-regional governments and seemingly limitless
immigration. Do not hope for help, for democratic process, from the EU. The
EU's idea of democracy is to consult "stakeholders" and then do what it
wants to do anyway. I have signed your petition”
“The
government needs to wake up to the fact that sustainability is not just
about the environment, it is also about social needs and economic factors.
The eco-town proposal for Ford is not sustainable because there has been no
attempt to even consult existing residents in advance, let alone give them
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"Ford eco-town will
engulf the rural villages of Ford, Climping and Yapton and 306 hectares of
grade 1 farmland... massive development to this beautiful, sensitive and
unique part of Sussex's coastal plain would not just be detrimental to the
character of this coastal river plain; it would be an irreversible loss to
the future of agriculture in the region"
"I
am strongly opposed to the eco-town - it is badly flawed and will destroy a
valuable greenfield site. It will place an even greater strain on local
services and infrastructure and undermine the local planning system"
"We
must do everything we can to stop the vandalism of an eco town in the
beautiful countryside between Arundel and Littlehampton. That area of Sussex
countryside is enjoyed by tens of thousands of people in Littlehampton and
Bognor Regis and its transformation into an urban landscape would take away
the lungs of the area and a major tourist asset"
“Communities
are coming together in their fights against the Prime Minister’s vast
concrete rolling machine. He may want to turn the land grey, but we will
fight for our green and pleasant land.”