The closure of the Tuckton Bridge causing serious traffic gridlock as far afield as Bournemouth Hospital (highlighted in the Bournemouth Echo on 5th April 2018) illustrates the effects of over-development within Bournemouth.
An important causal factor in my opinion is faulty Central Government policy that encourages commercial property development in an area that is in no need of any significant boost in jobs.
One serious local affect of this is upward pressure on house prices and rents because such development brings in people from other areas of the UK to take up the jobs created.
So on the one hand Central Government states it wishes to bring down house prices and rents in areas where they are high and then other hand it has development policies that cause the reverse effect.
Therefore is it not time that Bournemouth Council recognises this problem and alters its behaviour and policy towards such development?
In particular should it not rescind the offer of millions of pounds of Central Government money to build all over green space and green belt land at Wessex Fields?
Closing down the Bournemouth Development Company would be a good start.
Mark Elkins
South Road
Bournemouth
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