LETTER: We don’t need any more new homes – we want to be in the country

Published on 23/02/2013 08:47

I cannot see how the council can think about granting permission for a developer to build up to 1,400 houses and various shops etc on prime agricultural farmland off London Road, when there is a brown site at Bass Maltings that is waiting to be developed.

Surely they could put these 1,400 houses and various other facilities there?

Such a neighbourhood centre will practically link Sleaford and Quarrington to Silk Willoughby.

We moved to Quarrington as we did not want to live in a town but near the countryside. If residents wanted to live in the middle of a housing and shopping centre they could have purchased a house in the middle of town and now the council are trying to force more development onto us.

Why would the council agree to more shops being built at such a neighbourhood centre when it is trying to regenerate the town centre and the Bass Maltings site? The town centre shops should be developed first and when the development potential has been reached then the Bass Maltings could be developed if necessary.

How are the owners of 1,400 new houses going to find jobs? There are hardly any jobs in the area now for the existing residents, in fact thousands of them are unable to find work. The Sleaford job centre is full of non-existent jobs. Someone I know has applied three times or more for jobs that are more or less continuously advertised in the job centre, as they cannot get a job elsewhere, to be told each time that they have no vacancies and that the advert should not be active.

This development should not be allowed to go ahead. We cannot support the people of Sleaford and Quarrington without supporting a further 2,000 to 3,000 people that would live in the new houses.

The owners or tenants of the new houses cannot be homeless and living in the area at the moment so it would mean many people moving here from elsewhere.

Chris

Quarrington

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

LETTER: We don’t need any more new homes – we want to be in the country

Top stories

News