‘Easily overturned’

Some of the inspector’s conclusions are quite risible. ”Yapton has a reasonable range of essential services (like what?) and employment opportunities (where?). It is well served by public transport (from time to time) and a railway station only 3km away (how do you get there without a car?).

The narrow, already overcrowded roads of Goodhew Close were never built to withstand the inevitable years of construction traffic and the subsequent hordes of new residents’ cars; accidents will inevitably follow.

With the government instructing banks to severely limit the number of mortgage applications they pass, just who is going to want to buy the private houses on this new estate dominated by a high proportion of “social” housing?

Local Conservative councillors, both district and county, should bow their heads in shame because it is their government’s newest development policies that have brought this latest catastrophe to the village of Yapton.

Barrie Freeman

Goodhew Close

Yapton