I am writing concerning the Local Plan 2031 for the Vale of White Horse, and Chilton village.
We received the Vale’s leaflet about this last Wednesday, March 26, the day after the last of the public exhibitions concerning this plan.
The proposed ‘East Harwell Campus’ is partially within Chilton parish boundary and very close to Chilton School but the nearest exhibition had been held in Harwell School, two miles away.
Chilton currently consists of about 625 houses, 275 of these being built recently on Chilton Field site, adjacent to the primary school. To build a further 1,400 houses in this locality is extreme.
We have an ongoing problem with sewage in Chilton. Where is it intended that the sewage will go from these additional 1,400 houses?
With the planned upgrade of the Chilton A34 interchange, it is highly likely that the proposed housing development will become a ‘dormitory town’, serving Milton Park, Oxford and London, as the routes towards Oxford and to Didcot railway station will become an easy, direct journey. Why do we bother to designate areas as ‘of outstanding natural beauty’, to be preserved for the future, if the legislation can just be swept aside at will?
Surely building say, an extra 70 or so houses, adjacent to 20 of the small villages in the Vale would mean more people being readily absorbed into existing communities, rather than dumping 1,400 next to just one small village?
CAROL PIGOTT
Latton Close
Chilton
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