Reader’s Response To Housing Consultation

A ThameNews.Net reader had sent the following comments following our report about the current Consultation about the future development of housing in the district (Report: 04/01/08)

Dear Editor

Thanks for drawing attention to the issues and options plan. For your information I copy below an e-mail I have sent to the South Oxon council about it. Presumably our Town Council is on to the whole thing as there doesn’t seem to be much time. Presumably the building of my house blocked the view of someone else at some time so I could not object to a new estate on the field at the bottom of my road (Fanshawe). But I think it is reasonable to consider whether a breach of the by-pass boundary on the eastern side of the town would lead eventually to urban sprawl.
Copy of e-mail text follows:

“Looking at the Thame planning options from A to F it seems to me that people are understandably likely to choose a site which is not near to them. I would find it difficult fairly to indicate my preference for that very reason. It does occur to me though, that if new housing is built on the eastern side of the Thame by-pass, an established boundary would be breached and this could open the way to an urban sprawl which would swallow up Towersey and in the very long term create a new conurbation.”

Norman Brand

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