SIR – I have received a copy of Michael Foster’s newsletter with its front page banner headline ‘Working for you all year round, not just at election time’.
Eager to see what our MP has been doing on our behalf over the past couple of years regarding the South Worcestershire Joint Core Strategy (SWJCS) plans for massive house building across our area, as well as within our city, I scoured the newsletter – but to no avail.
Does this mean that he has done nothing – or is this an indication that he is simply unaware of the biggest single threat to our quality of life experienced in several generations?
Remember, the housing allocations we are all desperately trying to match, with all the attendant infrastructure, social and environmental consequences are imposed on us by central government rather than fed into the planning system by the communities themselves. This is top down control and whether planning for tractor production in the former Soviet block or seeking to cover large tracts of countryside with housing, the consequences are nearly always painful and tragically out of touch. Let’s have another newsletter pretty quickly, Michael, before we come to the conclusion that you really do not know what has been unleashed on us – or worse, don’t care!
Dr Malcolm Nixon,
Worcester.
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