The report that more than 20,000 houses are to be built in villages in west Northamptonshire over the next five years has dismayed many, yet no-one is prepared to address the underlying problem – that of immigration.
For instance, In Moulton, a village near Daventry with a population of about 3,000, developers “are trying to shoehorn large developments of 150 houses” onto any available land according to alarmed residents.
The locals rightfully fear that the unprecedented demand for houses is going to encroach on green belt land and destroy the countryside. Others believe that the programme, which will see Daventry enlarged in area by a third, will destroy the unique character of their ancient town. Nor will the “highly-enriched” county town of Northampton be exempt as it will, should the plans go ahead, experience the most significant development since the 1970s.
According to both Northampton Borough Council and Daventry District Council the 20,000 houses are needed by 2026 to meet housing need and bring jobs and investment to the area. Neither council has quantified how many new jobs are involved nor the size of the investment.
That there has been significant population growth in Northamptonshire is undeniable, Northampton alone experienced a population increase of 20,000 between 2001 and 2011 according to the official figures.
Yet beyond the announcement that the housing is necessary neither council is apparently prepared to explain where the growth in population has come from – an interesting question when one considers that it is generally accepted that the birthrate amongst native Britons is both relatively low and relatively stable.
Meanwhile a spokesman from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), is concerned about pockets of development in the villages. “One site is approved for 38 houses and on the other side of the village 158,” he said.
The concern is that the numbers quickly mount up in small communities, swamping villages to the extent that they could end up being mere suburbs of nearby larger towns such as Northampton and Daventry.
The CPRE spokesman is further quoted as claiming: “It’s easier to build on green fields than on brownfield sites but we need to protect the countryside and this comes first”, which is obviously true but wholly fails to mention, far less address, the root of the problem – immigration.
Typically the local Tories are seen sitting on the fence with more than one eye on the approaching county council elections. One of their spokesmen reportedly claiming that “they were listening to the concerns of village residents” and that it was all about “getting the balance right between affordable housing and the growing numbers – jobs and the investment we need to bring here.” In other words he said absolutely nothing!
So there you have it, even more of Britain’s countryside about to be buried under concrete and asphalt to facilitate an immigration-fueled population explosion and no-one, including the Tory Party, CPRE or local residents prepared to even mention the underlying cause – so much for so-called “British grit”!
This is a vacuum that the British Democrats will, no doubt, be happy to fill.
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The village of Barwell in Leicestershire with a population of around 11,000 is about to suffer even worse. Barwell is part of the Urban Borough of Hinckley and Bosworth of King Richard the Third fame. During the Blair Brown era local councils were requested/ordered to invite landowners to register any land thought suitable for urban development. Part of their paln to build 5,500,000 million houses to cater for the needs of their population explosion plot fuelled by immigration.
The borough council prepared what was described as a Sustainable Urban Extension documant. Two paragraphs in Hinckley was described as a rural iindustrial area with a population of approx. 101,000 of which about 91.5% were described as white British. Why did we need to know that? Unless of course it proved that the borough was a suitable case for multicultural enrichment.
The SUE made the case for 5,500 new residential properties. Despite the answer to a freedom of Information request revealing that more than 1,100 residences within the borough were standing unoccupied.
Replies to letters always included statements such as these properties are needed for local people. The present Lib/Dem councillors are throwing their full weight behind the project.
2,500 of these houses are scheduled to be built on productive farmland that was classified as green belt. The people of Barwell demanded a Referendum and the result was a massive 96.5% NO.
The response from the LIB/Dems stated that they were not bound by the result and that the result was only that high because the yea vote did not turn out etc etc.
Consider that there already developments proceeding within the Borough at Hinckley that amount to over 2,000 properties and you have some idea of the scale of the changes that are about to be wrought in our town.
The problem that Britain faces is not, “that you get what you vote for” but that you get “what you did not vote for”.
Son-of-Sommevet.
Nice issue for the Britdems to pick up on.
( Party Official ) Having just watched Prime Minister’s Question Time , I have to say that I am so Proud of our Party. Corbyn decided to ask all his allotted questions on the subject of housing. So far so good but unlike our Party I knew they would NOT address the problem. It remained the ‘ elephant in the room’. The Prime Ministers answers were like the questions. Just narrow class based dogma and no one thought that MASS IMMIGRATION just might have a bearing on the matter ! During the time they took to insult our people with their waffle , fifty or so more people arrived in Britain and expected to be HOUSED !