Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

It beggars belief that Ashwell, along with other villages, was invited to submit a neighbourhood plan only for you to choose to ignore some of the most important details contained in it.
a. a need for smaller houses to cater for young families and elderly people wishing to downsize.
b. the plan identified areas within the existing village boundary where it would be
possible to accommodate (a) and fulfill our quota of new houses. Instead you
choose to suggest extending the boundary to a site on top of a hill.
At some time I assume that the plan is for this site to be developed for housing. For the housing the village needs this would be one of the most unsuitable sites. We have no footpath into the village, on occasions cars enter the village at great speed and where Claybush Hill joins Ashwell Street there is a very dangerous blind bend, cars block Bear Hill four times a day and the only existing small amount of footpath has seventeen steep steps. Added to all of this is the fact that the hill is steep. Why would anyone want to include such a site within the village? I can only assume that the landowner has no purpose for this site and wishes to benefit financially, he certainly has no thought for the people who might live there.
As our elected representatives I would ask you to think again.