Louise Chapman’s article (Voice, January 5) regarding a planning application for a large development at Moulton Chapel highlights once again how the control of the planning system has spiralled out of the hands of the council and is in freefall.
The Government recently announced that a number of new villages were to be built around the country, one being on Spitalgate Heath at Grantham (site of the now closed army barracks), which to me has much merit in the fact that it has no flood risk, is close to the A1 trunk road and a main line railway station and it will reinforce the case of the councillors who are campaigning to keep open the A&E part of their hospital and, above all, want it.
On that basis it seems reasonable to ask Lincs county councillors through their scrutiny committee to review the allocation of designated housing allocated to South Holland District Council to relieve the pressure at Holbeach.
As LCC are now the lead authority on flood risk and play a large part in the drafting of the new South East Lincolnshire 2036 local plan and, as the Moulton councillor has made clear, it is high grade agricultural land and from which future generations will need to be fed. I rest my case.
Coun Francis Biggadike
South Holland District Council, Holbeach ward
