The Last Rabbit

The field that backs on to our garden is threatened with an estate of 95 houses ; it's not a huge field and this would be a very high density of dwellings per hectare. If it is given the go ahead then the village of Bierton will literally be joined to the town of Aylesbury as there is another huge development a few fields away which is part of the town.

Clearly, the last thing we want is housing instead of fields to look on. So as you can imagine we are objecting. There is a bit of the NIMBY factor at work but what really upsets me is the destruction of so many green fields all over the country. This is just one more in some ways but is only due to the avaricious developer and greedy landowner - nether of whom live here or care about the damage they are doing, being only interested in making money. It brings no benefit to the village at all.

The basic problem is the government has decreed that more or less any development is given the go ahead in the drive to build more and more houses. Our County Council planners turned this application down so the developer is appealing against this decision to the government planner. I'm afraid in the current climate of build anything anywhere they are likely to win. But it doesn't stop us pointing out the damage that they are doing - more traffic, more people, more gridlocked roads and nowhere for the wildlife to go. If that development goes ahead then we move away.

At the end of my letter of objection I copied the Alan Brownjohn poem, To see the Rabbit. (Look it up) Reading this now, it's becoming a scaring reality.