Fresh bid launched to slash the annual house building target (From Andover Advertiser)
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Fresh bid launched to slash the annual house building target
11:00am Thursday 21st March 2013 in Basingstoke By Adam Richards
FRESH demands to drastically slash the number of new homes built each year have been issued amid fears that Basingstoke's infrastructure will be unable to cope.
Independent councillors, Basing ward member Onnalee Cubitt, and Overton's Ian Tilbury are demanding borough chiefs reduce the previously agreed new homes target of between 730 and 770 to 594.
They have tabled a motion for Thursday's Council meeting.
They want the 594 figure to be the default target until Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council planners can prove more homes will not further pollute the River Loddon with ecologically damaging phosphorus.
Cllr Cubitt said: “There has to come a time as councillors when we can look our residents, friends and neighbours in the eye and say 'We won't force any more houses on you until we are 100 per cent confident our town and communities can cope with them.”
Comments(7)
jmwturner
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2:54pm Thu 21 Mar 13
And we need power from tides, it's there every day, and nuclear fusion, instead of intermittent wind power and hazardous nuclear fission. Again the government fails us!
JJ38JJ
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3:17pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Dragon*Puff
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3:42pm Thu 21 Mar 13
It is just that the Conservatives promised the Basingstoke and Deane electorate in May 2012 that they had reduced the target build numbers to 594 new houses per annum and then in October, 2012 they raised the number back up to 730 to 770 new houses per annum.
ParanoidAndroid
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5:55am Fri 22 Mar 13
jonone
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12:14pm Fri 22 Mar 13
jmwturner wrote:people need to quit the overcrowded south? So, where do you live?
Quite right, but for wrong reasons. do yo think there are limitless local resources? We are out of water and sewerage capacity, and school places, and the roads and town centre are overloaded. Absolutely time to stop building more trouble! People need to quit the overcrowded southeast and go where ther is more available infrastructure and cheaper housing. Oh, and we need a government with the balls to make this attractive to people. And we need power from tides, it's there every day, and nuclear fusion, instead of intermittent wind power and hazardous nuclear fission. Again the government fails us!
Sam_Walker123456
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12:17pm Fri 22 Mar 13
Your question makes the assumption that the food exported by these nations is surplus to their requirements. Unfortunately in many cases it is not and some of these countries even have many of their own people starving to death despite producing cheap food for us. The developed and developing world is buying large parts of these poor countries to either strip of minerals or to grow foods using cheap labour who often subsist on a diet of poor quality maize. Very much like the Irish potato famines of the 19th century.
We do not have uncontrolled immigration, what we do not have is controlled repatriation of those whose visas or work permits have expired.
Good luck with any attempt to educate people to be responsible for how many children they have and can support.
Sensory says...
1:15pm Thu 21 Mar 13
We better stop having children while we're at it too. They cause far too much strain on our infrastructure what with wanting their own places and such.