Object

Representation ID: 5771

Received: 07/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Frank Squire

I am a resident and speak only for myself and my remarks relate only to that part of the Dennybrook proposal which relates to Honeydon and Begwary.

You will have received from local people many objections to the above development. There is one objection which I wish particularly to emphasise which is that the proposed site for Dennybrook is open countryside comprising grade 2 agricultural land together with attractive relatively unspoilt countryside with its gentle undulations, its woods, copses and hedgerows, its ditches, ponds and streams, its abundant wildlife and pretty lanes.

As Mark Twain, the American journalist and novelist said about land, they are not making any more of it. In particular they are not making any more relatively unspoilt English countryside.. The proposed Dennybrook site as well as comprising beautiful, if undramatic, countryside is also productive agricultural land and now that we are beginning to see globalization (costly and environmentally harmful) coming to an end and being replaced by a trend towards self-sufficiency, this land could become even more productive by the introduction of crops other than cereals..

Current trends suggest that there will be even more demand for agricultural land in the future and as Mark Twain suggested, they are not making anymore land, particularly unspoilt countryside land so it would be folly to develop this greenfield land to make room for Dennybrook.

In its Vision Statement Taylor Wimpey talks lyrically of the benefits, particularly the environmental and ecological benefits, that would accrue if Dennybrook went ahead. My response to that is that even more benefits would accrue if Taylor Wimpey kept away altogether from the proposed Dennybrook site, leaving alone the relatively unspoilt English countryside.and instead concentrated on the existing brownfield land nearby.

Finally, were Dennybrook to go ahead I have little doubt that in 20 years time looking back at that development, it would be regarded as a folly and that it would therefore be appropriate to change its name from Dennybrook to Follybrook to remind everybody not to be so stupd again.