Letter to Residents of Shalfleet Parish

I have uploaded a few new posts to the blog in the past couple of days.  Note especially the post about the public meeting and Shalfleet Council (interim planning) meeting on Friday 23rd at 1830 in the Shalfleet Hall (the one with the car park, immediately outside Shalfleet village). 

http://shalfleetparish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-warlands-lane-estate-meetings.html

Please also see the other posts, some of which contain important local information.  Planning is the big topical issue at the moment with the Shalfleet Parish Council refusing to reconsider the validity of the 'Housing Needs Survey' as requested by residents.  Also the parking charges at Moa Place; however this is becoming part of an Island-wide issue with the Conservative Councillors in particular taking the lead in demanding a full review of parking charges rather than the illogical and ad-hoc changes in the present Order.

The Shalfleet Parish Council's usual tactic (as regulars will know) at so-called public meetings is to find speakers to fill up almost all the time, when the Chair refuses to listen to residents due to a shortage of time.   This is YOUR meeting, a public meeting, so have your say.  The meeting on Friday has been called to listen to the public's views on the planning applications, not some unrelated pet hobby-horse of the Parish Council.  Don't be bullied.

Once they have built on your green belt it will never be green belt again, and urban development always spreads.  It is far from clear that there is any need to build new homes on green field land in this Parish.

Best wishes,

David Walter

http://shalfleetparish.blogspot.co.uk/