Advice Surgery for July

This month's Advice Surgery will be on Saturday 20th, 10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. in the Community Room, Horsehay Village Hall.

If you have a question or concern about any aspect of living in the ward please do come along and I will do my best to help. No appointment necessary.

David Wilson Homes at Doseley Pipeworks

Last night's (Wednesday 3rd July) Plans Board passed outline planning for 460 homes on land off Doseley around the site of FP McCann pipeworks.

Despite widespread local opposition to the scheme all six Labour councillors voted in favour of approval.

Councillors had earlier heard of the numerous problems which attach to the plans including:

• At least 344 houses to have only one point of vehicular access via St. Luke's Road, a narrow lane with numerous pinch-points and a history of collisions caused by excess traffic
• Destruction of habitat for Bagders, rare birds, bats and reptiles
• Loss of employment (fifty-one direct employees of FP McCann), plus untold others at sub-contractors and suppliers
• Inclusion of contaminated land within the site

This is not the first example of the Labour adminstration riding rough-shod over local opinion. At the very same meeting they passed an application for eighty-five homes on green-field land in Newport.

So much for a "Co-operative" council.