Oh dear – yet another developer trying to squeeze a cookie-cutter estate into the green and pleasant pastures of Kempsey. Because what every village needs is 99 more cars clogging up the single road, isn’t it?
Local councillors are up in arms (and probably up ladders too, trying to get a better look at the plans) over the proposal to plonk nearly 100 new homes on good, honest, hard-working farmland. You know, the kind that still grows things rather than just profits.
In classic NIMBY fashion – and with full-blown pitchfork energy – residents have had enough. One shop. A school bursting at the seams. No dentist (unless you count Barry from the pub who once did a filling with a Dremel). And now this?
Luckily, our heroic County Councillor donned the red cape (and legal right) to kick up a stink and tell the planners where they can stick their housing estate. Meanwhile in Upton, silence reigns – but only because they’re technically not allowed to wade in. Yet.
As ever, it’s up to the locals to yell the loudest while developers eye up our fields like a lion at a salad bar. How many more houses do we need before someone realises what we actually need is infrastructure, not more cul-de-sacs and cul-de-crisis?
