11/01/2023
Adisham village needs your help (pretty please). This village has been my work home for the past 5 years and I have walked my dogs in it for at least 12. The people of the village have looked after me and welcomed the business and it holds a special place in my heart with both Boy and Lenny buried in the woods here. I might not actually live here but spend more time here than at my home most weeks.
We only have until MONDAY 16th AT 5PM
As part of the horrific Canterbury City Local Plan they are proposing a huge development of 3200 houses between Adisham and Aylesham, taking out a massive area of farmland and open green space. The poor landowners, who do not wish to sell the land, are feeling extremely stressed and the more objections the better.
If you would consider adding an objection to plan R1 (main Adisham one), R20 and R22 (houses at Womanswold and in Adisham near the station). Anyone can object, of any age and each person in the household can put in separate objections.
A few points (borrowed from others posts) but add anything you can think. The CARE FB group would also be a great place for more help and ideas:
* The character of our village home that would be lost, swamped by the new development.
* The scheme will destroy much prime farmland, superbly productive, precisely when our country needs such land.
* The rural landscape will be lost and our community detracted from.
* The road infrastructure is completely inadequate to the extra 3,200 houses that would be built in the new town especially when added to 420 houses (‘minimum’) that CCC plan in Womenswold and, in the Dover Plan, 640 at Aylesham (joining Aylesham and Snowdown).
* East Kent is already a water-stressed area. We understand that CCC have no scientific evidence to show that local water resources can bear this extra burden.
* The woodlands, Oxenden and Ileden, which are officially designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). If we allow the influx of so many more people and consider the increased footfall in the woods, it is clear that the threat to the Flora and fauna is huge.
* Light pollution. Wild life nowhere to go day or night. No more stargazing. Too much concrete leading to more flooding and loss of habitat for wild life.
There are drop in sessions in Adisham Village Hall on 14th Jan at 9am - 11pm and 3pm - 6pm for help filling in the online forms if you are not sure.
Conserve Adisham Rural Environment (CARE) FB group for more support - https://www.facebook.com/groups/853486756074549
The below is the link to the CCC website to register your objections. Scroll down to about 2/3 of the way down, to where it says ‘have your say’. R1, R20 and R22 :-)
https://news.canterbury.gov.uk/.../canterbury-district.../
Thanks so much
