Residents unable to raise concerns
The threatened development of a store on a prime site for affordable housing is going forward to start in September. According to Tesco’s letter of intent there is no need for planning permission and therefore no opportunity for local residents or their elected representatives to raise any possible concerns they may have.
This letter of intent threatens to blow a very large hole in the Local Development Plan which the council has been painstakingly preparing since the request from the Secretary of State following the Localisation Act in 2011.
Councillors surely must need to consider whose priorities must come first – the Secretary of State’s or Tesco’s?
JOHN GREGORY
Secretary, Brighton Road Residents Association, Brighton Road, Horsham