Dear Editor, What a load of nonsense from Lord Lymington about his dream to build a huge development south of the M3. It is absolute rubbish to suggest that his plan could work under any present plans, mainly how do would you get an extra say 2,000 vehicles to exit his dream location on a normal traffic flow situation? Those who use the A3345 for their normal travel to work experience a huge back up of vehicles trying to get under the motorway bridge. And this is every normal every working day. There appears to be no logical sense in pretending that all will be well and the road can cater for this situation, it simply not feasible and the people who have drawn up these plans need to go back to their desks.
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article “New jobs & new homes, Lord pledges” (The Gazette, February 25). If Lord Lymington wants to leave a “true legacy”, why not turn his land into a country park rather than sell it for housing? Perhaps any return wouldn’t be as lucrative for him though, eh? Let’s see if Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council takes this land out of the draft revision of the Adopted Local Plan. Once land is in ALPs, proposals are to make the planning system quicker and easier to gain outline planning permission. The cabinet member for planning is the borough councillor for the parishes where this development is proposed.
BASINGSTOKE will benefit from 2,500 new homes and 2,500 new jobs if plans for a new environmentally-conscious housing development are given the go-ahead. That is the message from the the figureheads behind Lord Lymington’s proposed project to build “genuinely affordable housing” on his 302hectre estate which lies to the south of Basingstoke and has been in his family for 600 years. The Upper Swallick garden village plans have been met with fierce opposition from residents in nearby Cliddesden who fear proposals will affect their views of the beautiful countryside and could impact house prices. So far, 6,500 people have signed a petition against development.