BUFFER ZONE Fields on the border of Havant and Emsworth
Published in the Portsmouth News on 1st January 2014
THE potential loss of the last remaining farmland between Havant and Emsworth has been heavily criticised by a green group
Friends of the Earth is worried that the shrinking gap between the two towns is in danger of being lost forever.
It comes as Havant Borough Council and landowners could alter a legal agreement signed in 1992 to protect the green space.
The changes would allow the development of 140 homes off Horndean Road and 203 homes to be built south of Bartons Road. The agreement has already been altered to allow the development of Havant Crematorium.
Ray Cobbett from Emsworth is the Friends of the Earth group co-ordinator and believes signing off the other two developments will pave the way for the disappearance of the entire gap. He wrote to the council in response to the Draft Allocations Plan, which sets out the likely locations of 2,800 homes over the next 13 years
In his letter, Mr Cobbett said: ‘Despite a 25-year embargo enshrined in the agreement on any development, permission was granted in 2012 for a new crematorium. Two further incursions are now proposed. We oppose the inclusion of these sites.
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