Friday, October 9, 2015
England’s Green And Pleasant Land Under Threat As Migrants Increase Housing Demand
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I am sure none of these towns or villages mean a lot to those outside
the area, but there are many places like them all over England being
ruined by new housing. Rural communities built up over generations with
minor amendments along the way to ensure the appearance and identity of
the villages are being swamped and destroyed by disproportionately large
housing developments.
Whilst I was a Surrey County Councillor, some years ago I
could see the same thing happening there. The Green Belt around the M25
was being threatened again and again with housing applications. The
boundaries were being eaten away with thousands of homes replacing the
undulating green of the Surrey hills.
As we know there are many brown field
sites which could be built on and there is supposed to be a presumption
of using these. Developers however, make far more profit from building
on green sites and of course the building industry spend millions
lobbying the government and local councils. Even so, brown field sites
are finite, and eventually even if the developers were to use them, they
would run out, such is the demand for housing.
If there was not such a high housing
demand, then the developers would have no reason to destroy our
countryside. Maybe it would not be so bad if the need was from local
people, but this is not the case.
I campaigned against a proposed
development whilst in Surrey, called the Horley Master Plan. It was
during the start of the last Labour government in the late 1990’s. There
was talk then that half of these thousands of homes may be needed for
immigrants.
When I protested at public meetings about
this, the screams of “racism” came thick and fast from every quarter,
even Conservative colleagues accused me of scaremongering.
All I protested about was wanting to
protect our green belt, ensure our own people had homes and proper
immigration control so that the housing demand was also controlled.
Nothing I said was about where the immigrants came from, it was about
the numbers. As it has now turned out the Labour government then had
plans to flood our shores with migrants, but nobody other than Blair’s
gerrymandering cronies knew about this secret agenda.
Since that time the numbers of immigrants
have escalated. First of all with the Labour government actually
searching out migrants from all over the world to come here in their
millions. Then Labour and Conservative-led governments drew us ever
closer to the European Union (EU) with its open borders policy. Now
Cameron is allowing hundreds of thousands more to come here despite at
election time telling voters there were going to be controls.
558,000 migrants came here in the last year, which is ridiculous. We cannot sustain these numbers.
With the policy of dispersal, the
government is moving immigrants around the country. Developers will be
putting in more plans for green field sites.
I remember thinking when I left Surrey
that the area I lived in, which was near Reigate, would be changed
beyond all recognition within a few years. The Green Belt eaten away
with housing demand so intense, that from London to the coast there
would be nothing but modern estates, with patches of green here and
there. Depressingly, this is happening in some parts, with the rest
under threat.
In Lincolnshire, it will not be long
before our unique villages will be merged into urban sprawls. We cannot
go on like this. Most of those who cry racism tend to live in ivory
towers in nice parts of London or in cosy rich areas where the price of
property alone, precludes anything as nasty as a modern estate ruining
their views.
I have just been notified that another 50
houses have been approved on a green field site in a small village near
me. I see in the media stories of hordes of migrants coming here with
EU encouragement, and a weak government scared to act in case they are
called racist.
Such cowardice is beyond contempt when
they were elected to act in our best interests. Worse, the leaders of
the Liberal, Labour and Conservative parties are so scared of losing the
migrant vote, they dare not do anything sensible to stop the flow, but
just talk about it.
Our green and pleasant land will soon be
no more unless we can control our borders. We need a government with the
political will and courage to put our country before self interest.
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