General Discussion
Thought I'd post this as housing is such an issue in Dawlish and Teignbridge right now and we have threads on here concerning specific proposed housing development sites in Dawlish.
It's an extract from the website page of our MP concerning housing and planning.
Is it me or is there a contradiction between her acknowledging there is a housing problem in this area but then at the same time claiming that she helped reduce the amount of houses scheduled to be built? And isn't an awful lot, if not all, of the new housing scheduled to be built around here, going to be built on what are presently green fields?
"A third of the cases Anne Marie is asked to help constituents with relate to housing. There is too little housing stock to meet demand locally and the private rented sector is difficult and expensive to access..............
................To deal with the housing problem Teignbridge District Council have produced a new Core Strategy which sets out the framework for development across Teignbridge over the next 20 years.
The plan raised concerns with a number of local residents and Anne Marie attended a number of local meetings including at Bishopsteignton and Abbotskerswell to listen and then raise their concerns with the Council.
She was concerned about the predicted numbers to be built and asked the local council to review them which they did – and the number was revised downwards. She was equally concerned that green fields (Teignbridge has no green belt land) should be built on only as a very last resort and lobbied the government accordingly with Zac Goldsmith and other like minded MPs."
http://www.annemariemorris.co.uk/campaigns/housing-and-planning
One problem with a lot of mp's is that they don't understand that it is not their views they should be putting across, but the views of the electorate who voted them in. I may be dreaming here, but aren't mp's supposed to champion our causes and not their own. You don't see many mp's who were either unemployed or on min age becoming mp's do you !