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Residents against village homes plan
After reading your article about the proposed new housing development for Moor View, Hinderwell I, along with close neighbours, are strongly against such a venture and the change in lifestyle it will cause adjoining existing elderly retired residents and hope the petition we presented to the NYM planners will be subject to democratic reasoning and listen to the voice of the people affected.
I recently purchased my property and took considerable time and thought into acquiring not only the right property but probably more importantly the right location as this was intended to be my retirement home.
This will be totally transformed as the new large properties will be directly within a few metres of what at the moment is open countryside and peaceful environment and should be kept that way, or do we not count because we are the older generation?
The traffic in the main road access to the estate is already a dangerous road that many people drive too fast through and recently a child was the subject of a hit and run on this road, the extra traffic will only enhance the danger and will take away the green cul-de-sac that young children currently use at the hammerhead as this will be the new site entrance main road.
The lack of parish council consultation does not come as any surprise as this proposal does not affect any of the sitting parish councillors members due to its location and the land sale is the old cliche that money talks and despite assurances that the adjoining fields will not be subject to further development, rumour is rife that future development has already been considered.
One final plea to the developers, councillors and more importantly the NYM planning department, please see sense and consider the current residents and consider alternatives that are more suitable and let everyone appreciate what we have already got, change is not always for the better, this one definitely is not.
Ben Harrison, Moor View, Hinderwell
I would like to give you views from local residents in response to a recent article in the Whitby Gazette about the proposed development at Moor View, Hinderwell and the propaganda one-sided views that were put over.
The development is yet another project in the Whitby area totally unsympathetic with the existing area and is I advise all the propaganda brigade, councillors, rural officers, council officals, planners, prospective MP (who I assume has never heard of Hinderwell, never mind the development site) to go and stand in the green farmed field outside the building boundaries of the national park.
Go and see for themselves how wrong this proposal is for this site and how even two storey blocks can be built so close to retired and elderly residents (with no open consultation) who currently enjoy the tranquillity that their “homes” were obviously designated for that reason.
This will totally transform their current lifestyles and I have concern that their well-being is not been considered and yet again the bully boy tactics and all the propaganda that goes with it will win yet again.
We conducted a door-to-door survey on the small adjoining estates and 90% of people available were against such a development for many reasons but sympathetic views were given if single storey retirement bungalows were to be built and fit in with the existing area.
Due to the development being built on a green farmed field and outside building boundaries and got round by using the “exception site rule” and the lack of any consultation is yet another collaboration of people in authority disregarding the real people directly affected and the elected personnel who it does not obviously concern their agenda because it is not on their doorstep.
This confirms our beliefs that now is the time that we clean up local authorities and politics and give it back to the people who they should be representative of all not the few.
Victor Hicks, Coronation Avenue, Hinderwell, by email
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