LETTER: Must we build more houses in Holbeach?

For the past few weeks as I’ve looked out of our back windows, I’ve seen a beautiful field of daffodils.

Today they are dying, but with our flat, fenland landscape I can see for miles, and the contrasting fields that grow the food to feed us, so how disappointing, and disturbing, to learn that yet another site for building is proposed for Holbeach. The intended site comprises of prime agricultural land, and due to the two development sites that have already been granted, do we really need to build yet more houses?

A previous proposal of this site (Hob039) was rejected due to: “impacts relating to landscape character and air, water and soil quality” and “Although the impacts are not significant, the site would have more of an adverse impact upon the character and appearance of its surroundings than alternative sites”.

So, during the last few months, I ask “What has changed?”

R Patchett
Holbeach

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