Just as a reminder as to what this is all about. Shalfleet Parish Council issued a housing needs survey which is known by several names both within and without the PC. I think it's known as the 'Affordable Housing Survey' now. Various property developers in the parish have put forward plans to build housing estates on green field land (and one brown field) by citing this Affordable Housing Survey to justify need. At two public meetings residents have complained somewhat angrily to the Shalfleet Parish Council that they cannot believe the results of the survey are correct. I, as an ordinary resident in Wellow, asked three times for the SPC to put the matter on the agenda to consider the validity of the survey. I was turned down point blank on each occasion. Therefore I submitted a Freedom of Information request to find out the facts. Embedded below is the latest email correspondence sent today, 6th June 2014. Please note that Susannah Jennings has been away on leave during this correspondence and the Acting Clerk, Mrs Sally Woods, is using Susannah's email address.
So, have Shalfleet PC been incompetent or just naïve?
ReplyDeleteStill at least we can all take comfort from the fact that these duty-bound land developers are doing it for the benefit of the “local community”. ROFL