Friday, 9 August 2013
Nottingham Post want your views... today!
Nottingham Post are looking for quotes from members of our community and their feelings about the plans to build on our Greenbelt. If anyone would like to add their feelings to the article, please either post your views here or on the Facebook page. Inbox us on Facebook with your phone numbers or email them to us at: radcliffecommunity@gmail.com and Emily from the Post will give you a call. Or you could do all of the above ;) as it would be great to have a record on the various sites too.
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Radcliffe is a dangerous rat run used by drivers cutting off the corner between the A52 and the A46. 400 new houses will make this problem worse. I do not want to wait for someone to be killed before we do something about this. Peter Lord 07951 211665
ReplyDeleteOur village is big enough as it is and being surrounded by fields is all part of the appeal of living in a village! It would be devastating if permission was granted to build on the fields as it is such a wonderful view and abundant with wildlife. We chose Radcliffe as our home because it has all the amenities but still has the closeness of a friendly community and the addition of 400 homes would spoil that. Rachel Tilly.
ReplyDeleteGreenbelt stops suburban sprawl, and allows villages to retain their own character and size. As a very large village of 8000 people already, and an infrastructure that already struggles, we cannot cope with a 10% increase of population that this many houses would bring. It won't make houses in Radcliffe cheaper, as new builds are marketed at high values, and it will cause an increase in traffic, pollution, strained schools and make it impossible to get appointments in the single medical practice we have.
ReplyDeleteThe whole point of green belt land is that is protected from development. If you get rid of that protection at the first sign of a development company wanting to build, what on earth was the point in designating it as green belt land in the first place?
Many people moved here because of its village feel, and friendly atmosphere. I, and many others feel that this will be lost if Radcliffe keeps being expanded.
Radcliffe-on-Trent is not in the south east of England, where the national news regularly talks about housing shortages. Last time I looked, there were already plenty of houses for sale and to rent in Radcliffe estate agent windows - indeed, a new estate agent opened in Radcliffe this year! This suggests that there isn't the shortage of housing, that the council claims at all, otherwise there would be no properties to market.
If this is the only reason for allowing development on greenbelt land, perhaps we should be questioning this premise! I wonder at their figures, and how on earth they came to the conclusion that there is insufficient housing available? It certainly seems unlikely that this was measured in any scientific way.