I have lived in Dickens Heath for 20 years. I have seen the amount of houses go up after being told no more would - the amount of issues that have risen from all these houses with no sufficient drainage so the roads and gardens flood (the fields that are left can't hold the water so how are more houses going to help?)
I have a horse near the village and since the new developments have been built, countless times now have we been vandalised e.g. broken into, things chucked in the field, people trying to get in the field with our horses (mostly kids because i assume they have nothing better to do), and now EVEN MORE housing is going up.. how is it going to help anything other than the fact a building company gets a big wad of cash. No concern to those who have been here from the start of Dickens Heath, no concern to those who have seen what it used to be like - a rural village surrounded by fields, farmers, livestock etc. But now roads are being ruined and nothing is done, crime rates are going up and nothing is done... see a correlation?
I'm sure if you even read this email you will probably think i'm talking nonsense. It used to be lovely and quiet and what is it now? You get yobs walking around doing drug deals outside your house, you get people going the wrong way around the roundabouts, people speeding down country lanes when there are working farms moving cattle, constant complaints about the state of the roads and about the flooding... but you don't choose to address the problems of those who have lived here from the start, you choose to listen to those who could move here and give you money.