I HAVE made representations to Crewe and Nantwich Council, to Cheshire Council and to a broad church of councillors representing Cheshire communities to stop the highly undesirable, ecologically damaging and aesthetically bereft development at Wychwood near Weston, Crewe.

The Crewe council has just been granted permission for even more of this private and socially exclusive development (a gated estate', set apart from normal societal structures) to be built, 500 more dwellings.

The council and the county are seemingly incapable of listening to siren warnings as they seem to be totally incapable of making judgements as to what people require from homes.

Certainly not this anodyne, unrelentingly moribund trail of constructions that disfigure vast areas of Crewe and Nantwich, turning the once lovely town of Nantwich into a twee estate, in total defiance of that historic and character-full town.

Will they not accept that since the New York catastrophe, the fall of the stock market and the obvious problems of recession across the economy that this totally unnecessary plan that may despoil further the fast disappearing Cheshire countryside, if implemented, may only produce the possibility of a ghost town.

Would it not also be sane, politic and inclusive to refer such massive incursions into the society of South Cheshire to referenda to establish that the existing residents of the area are fully cognisant of the effects that the creation of such a carbuncle will cause.

James Turner

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