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Chris Wheatley's avatar

The failure to build relief roads over the last 25 years whilst unprecedented house building has occurred sadly demonstrates the total incompetence of our local town planners.

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Andrew Matthews's avatar

I could not agree more. One of the reasons that I started writing about planning was to expose the incompetence

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Roger's avatar

The western link road won't be able to happen without digging up the football pitches at Fairford Leys.. and there isn't enough sport fields as it is.. and the pavilion is rotting away rather than being given to the community to use and rejuvenate.

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Andrew Matthews's avatar

The Western Link Road is another HS2 negotiation failure. There was a point in the early 2010s where HS2 was throwing money around. The Buckinghamshire councils worked on cancelling HS2 rather than preparing bids. We could have had a lot more of the link road network built by now using HS2 money.

I think that sports fields will have to go unfortunately. If that happens then we need to put pressure on the council to build sports facilities at Berryfields where there is available land.

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