Object

Representation ID: 7776

Received: 22/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Jeremy Freedman

I am registering my objection to the proposal known as “Dennybrook” for the land to the West of Wyboston.
I object on environmental grounds to the ripping up of thousands of acres of fields to provide housing when there are so many brownfield and redundant urban sites available.
We live in an environment of rapid climate change. The impact of this development will be catastrophic.
We are witness to species extinction. Again, the impact will be catastrophic.
We face serious food supply problems. These arable fields will be needed for food security. We face major supply problems in the construction industry. We should be recycling existing buildings not creating new ones out of scares resources.
I also object on location grounds. We do not have the infrastructure in NE Bedfordshire to support this development. Where are the roads? The schools? The medical services? The shops? And for the thousands of people that are destined to live in this new development, where are the jobs? Clearly there are none locally, and transport links will be needed. The nearest station is miles away on the other side of St Neots.
I am sorry to say that this is a poorly hatched and badly thought out scheme which has no regard to the problems we face locally, nationally and internationally in the 21st Century. I am the first to recognise that we need to increase the housing stock as populations increase and demography changes. This is not the way to do it.