DEVELOPMENT: A win-win proposal

Your leader hopes that when the middle school site in South Road becomes vacant it can be “utilised in the best way possible”.

Here’s an idea – use it for 100 houses with access straight off the A1068.

This would provide far more sustainable housing much nearer the shops than the current oversized, 500-house, greenfield proposal, with minimal effect on Acklington Road congestion, no loss of agricultural land, no effect on the future bypass route and a sale price that would make the school redevelopment even better value for the community, the county council and ratepayers.

It would mean a loss of educational land, but there is still a large plot of undeveloped educational/recreational land immediately to the West so I don’t believe this would be a significant loss.

It’s a win-win, or is that too logical?

Tom Lloyd,

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