Support

Representation ID: 46164

Received: 11/09/2021

Respondent: Paul Breen

I wish to state my support for the Council's continued protection of the beautiful countryside at Lapal, Illey, Coombeswood, Uffmoor, Hayley Green, Lutley and Foxcote, following a formal review of the Green Belt.

I have grown up in the Lapal area and spent most of my life walking the fields of Lapal, Illey and the surrounding areas. This countryside means so much to myself and many people I know. For this land to be developed would be a tragedy - a needless, destructive act borne out of the lustful, unrestricted material greed of landowners/developers with no consideration or care for the people or the landscape they would be destroying.

The whole of this area is of regional importance as an amenity asset for the welfare of, and enjoyment by, a large population. It would be so simple to inflict irreparable damage to such a beautiful area.

In this time of so-called environmental-consciousness, we should be doing all we can to protect our countryside, especially such historically important countryside, instead of ever-expanding the concrete sprawl of the Midlands.

I urge the Council to continue to listen to the people of the community who wish to continue to live with such beautiful surrounding countryside, that it may be here for generations, and not to listen to the short-sighted material desires, cloaked in spurious necessity from the landowners/developers.