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New searchI cannot understand how, given the current global food situation and the acceptance that we will need to source more of our food locally in future, people think it would be a good idea to build on grade A farmland. This makes no sense at all. Given that the housing targets imposed by government bear no relation to the actual local housing needs this is just wanton destruction of a very important resource for the future of not only the local population but the population as a whole.
The HIF will fund the provision of road access (how well this will serve to reduce congestion once thousands more families are living on the peninsular remains to be seen) and a railway. The initial HIF application was flawed. What about all the other infrastructure that goes along with that sort of increase in population. The existing infrastructure is barely able to cope with the numbers living here already. Any contributions from developers towards the provision of necessary infrastructure eg. Water, Sewage, Sewage treatment, Surface water drainage,Electricity and flood protection will no doubt be added to the cost of the houses rendering them unaffordable to a lot of people. Any infrastructure provided will, no doubt, be at the minimum level allowable and as cheap as possible. In addition, it's all very well to build new schools and medical centres etc. etc. but who's going to staff them. We don't have enough teachers and doctors and nurses now.
Has anyone given any thought to the projections made by the Environment Agency and others with regard to the effects of rising sea levels due to climate change and the fact that the North Kent marshes and the Medway Estuary form part of the sacrificial flood plain to protect London?
They should NOT be built on prime agricultural land. They should NOT be built until ALL infrastructures have been upgraded to accommodate them. To build them first and install infrastructure afterwards would be to subject the whole of the population of the Hoo peninsular, old and new, to unnecessary difficulties.
I question whether the issues raised by residents of the Hoo peninsular in this consultation will be taken seriously or if it is just paying 'lip service' to a process in view of the fact that Medway Council have already pre-empted the legal process and have already caused a lot of damage
