Hunt’s the latest wannabe MP on Alfold’s case – because an election is just around the corner.
You can fool some people, sometimes Mr Hunt – but not those living on a building site and with sewage spilling into their gardens and recreation grounds in Alfold.
Why the clerk has to refer to a sewage spill across the recreation ground as a “Hydraulic overload,” only she knows. One of the most impolite clerks in the Waverley Borough is being polite, perhaps?
Why has this happened, Chancellor Hunt? Because your Government Inspectors have been following your Government’s diktat to build homes anywhere and everywhere despite the lack of local infrastructure to support them, Dummy.
What the hell is this man talking about? “Local people now get to decide what development happens and where.” Ask the residents of Alfold if they have had any say in the mass overdevelopment of their village.
Has this man just dropped in from the Planet Zonk?
Alisha Russell
This is great. However, with the developments already up and now residents in old buildings not being able to flush toilets when we have a rainy day, what are the suggestions for them? I reported Thursday evening to Thames Water and was told I’d hear back by Saturday evening, but nothing.
This is now the 2nd time our toilet has filled in the last two months due to just one day of rain due to the surcharge in the sewage drains.
Tracy Wisbey
is not good enough. Is it
Lorna Gee
A lot of this is because the central government has overruled local planners and ignored local people. Who has been running central govt for the past 14 yrs? Oh, hang on…
Tracy Wisbey
Too little too late…
Alisha Russell
definitely agreed!
Mary Harvey
Alfold Gardens is close to finished. One of the adverts states that 30% of these houses are “affordable”. In what reality is £715,000 affordable? There is not one single house on that development that is actually needed. Anyone who can afford the asking price of £715,000 to £1,650,000 is not in need of a house. Buyers want, not need. Alfold wants and needs fewer developments and mini estates until at least the basic local infrastructure can catch up.
Jeremy Hunt is campaigning for improvements and should be praised.
Most Sewage and water infrastructure throughout the UK was built in Victorian days when the population was half or less than that of today which has risen mainly because of longer life expectancy and by millions of immigrants. It is a long term project to renew and improve it for the rising population. Governments since 1945 have all not provided enough finance.
All governments also have only provided the infrastructure AFTER the increase in houses have been built. Maybe you will have to be quite young to see when the roads to and from Dunsfold Park will be improved from the inadequate single track and other over crowded roads to and from Guildford, Cranleigh, Godalming, the Milford and Guildford or when the water and sewage system is improved to be adequate for the present and future populations.
Where the LOCAL community is not excluded from environmental justice, they can benefit from Environmental Impact Assessment regulation. This includes “an estimate, by type and quantity, of expected residues and emissions (such as water, air, soil and subsoil pollution, noise, vibration, light, heat, radiation and quantities and types of waste produced during the development’s construction and operation phases.” From which information the suitable and sufficient infrastructure requirement could be determined and considered before planning permission is granted. The government has failed to address the issue of water security and sewage capacity. So aided and abetted by the many it has chosen the lowest cost option of polluting the nation’s vulnerable rivers with sewage.
Agreed – and where where the environmental Impact Assessments on so many of the developments agreed by Inspectors at appeal? There weren’t any because most the developers put in for 99 – hardly ever 100 or above. So no EIA’s.
I am sure Jeremy ( hypocrite) Hunt does not think of us his constituents when he votes for all the decisions that further damage our interests.
Water companies must tell Government how much money they need to fix and improve the water and sewage system and justify it. The required finance could be obtained partly by loans from banks, government grants and loans and increased water charges
Why on earth would any MP vote for measures which damage constituents interests? Jeremy Hunt is a public service MP who wants to improve life for all his constituents and that his reward. He is not working in order to make a personal fortune.
BUT Yes expenditure increases have to be contained in order to avoid the large tax increases which would be necessary and which would be against tax paying electors.
The sewage has been flowing in the Waverley borough for years. Why has Mr Hunt suddenly cottoned onto it?
I am glad the Clerk says she’s keeping a log. You need all the material evidence you can get.
Love it. No doubt it will be produced with a flourish at the next parish council meeting.
It is also a political decision to cut Environment Agency funding (50% over last decade) which has severely impacted their river monitoring and enforcement capability