Council must not be exploited
02 Aug 2006
HAVING read your report (July 19), which looked at the proposals for the science park extension and spoken to the man at the exhibition in The Forum, as a Swale Council taxpayer I am very concerned.It seems this whole plan is a concept from a company not even based in Swale.
Nothing wrong with that until you get told by an organiser that the houses are being built only to pay for the road that they need in order to make their profit.
They also told us that, because of the local council's ineptitude at reaching the Government's quota of new houses in the borough, the plans should go through with no problem. To me this seems a bit like business leading, or even exploiting, the council because our elected members are not doing their jobs properly.
Maybe this is why the arguments the company uses for justifying the development are so lame.
They just need to appease the masses for a short while until the council agrees to the whole area being ruined with 5.,000 more households all trying to get into Sittingbourne on a Saturday, about 7,500 more people in the area without jobs (2,500 possibly employed at the science park out of a minimum 10,000 new inhabitants), no water and the countryside turned into one giant housing estate.
Come on, Swale Council. Back your current real communities and prove my suspicions wrong. Say no to this project. Shell carried on a business there within the current confines of the park and using only the current road infrastructure!
M Stone,
Wihtred Road, Bapchild.
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