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It is about money, the council have ignored residents, every major nature conservation trust, historical groups, heritage groups, and even as mentioned the highways dept here's recommendations that the link road is not worth the costs, especially when you add the costs to our enviroment and such. The fact is that this road will allow them to also build two housing estates, and another Industrial estate, which is all well and good until you know that we have two other industrial estates in the area which are not being fully utilized now. One of them has only a few businesses in it and its in a perfect location. The other problem with the houses is that there is and entire area here called Hollington in which there are 100's of houses boarded up and in ill repute so not being used. The money could have been given to owners of those (a good portion of which actually belong to the council) to fix them up if there really was such demand for housing. There is demand for the well off to have a house adjacent to a nature area they can sell that better.

On a good note, the archiology team on site have actually found Saxon ruins, an entire village (which is one of the things the historians were trying to get them to realize) and it has brought the link road into question on a bigger scale now, because it was council hired archiologists that discovered it.
Being from the states it happens there, this type of thing, but as this is an island with an ever growing populus of people, we will continue to struggle to preserve nature, and it will be to the determent of us all when we don't give it its equal share of the land.

/end rant

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