BOB Woodland makes a good point in his letter (Echo, April 11). I also note with some trepidation the lottery-style number of proposed additional dwellings that all our councils are coming up with for our area.
Recent research carried out by a national newspaper found that 60,000 people are moving out of London each year, and of those, 90% look to relocate southwards, with Dorset proving to be one of the top destinations.
Another survey for ‘top rural areas for quality of life’ puts Purbeck at number five in the whole of the United Kingdom. It does not bode well that many of these dwellings will be for local people.
Taking Purbeck as an example (my local council) a total of 5,600 additional properties could be built (2,520 already in the 2012 approved plan, with the district council trying to now add another 3,080).
Dorset County Council advised at the recent Local Plan Review meeting that additional traffic on our stifled roads is not a cause for rejecting these kind of housing numbers and even if the traffic congestion doubles it would not be considered a problem.
We have to sit up and take notice now of what is trying to be imposed upon us or we will leave our grandchildren with a very different Dorset to the one that we know.
DAWN COLLEDGE
Post Green Road, Lytchett Minster
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