Save our Loddon Valley Environment
(SOLVE)

From Peter Bloyce (SOLVE)
Old Basing

Time for Action

Despite our best efforts so far, BAS102, BAS103 and BAS121 remain in the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA).  These sites are under threat of 9,000 houses being built with the accompanying devastation to our local wildlife and habitat.  (For a sense of scale there are approximately 3,200 dwellings in Old Basing & Lychpit combined.)

Our best hope at this time, to protect our river valley, is to get these sites removed.  You have until 21st June to comment on the suitability of any development.

WHAT MIGHT THIS MEAN FOR YOU?

•  Loss of your rural environment
•  No ‘natural’ NE boundary to development - thin end of wedge
•  Lasting damage to the River Loddon and surroundings
•  Climate change – our ability to adapt reduced
•  Infrastructure chaos:
  •  Increased traffic congestion and traffic jams
  • Over-subscribed schools, GPs, Dentists and hospitals
  • No plans and no money to rectify the current shortfall let alone provide for more
•  Water, both supply and sewerage at capacity:
  •  Unable to extract more water without adversely affecting the Loddon and aquifers
  •  Waste water treatment already at capacity
  •  You will pay the cost for increased water treatment

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

We cannot win this battle on ideas alone. It will be won by 'PEOPLE POWER' and residents becoming a 'squeaky wheel' that the Council, Planners and Councillors CANNOT IGNORE.  It will be won by letter writing, leaflet delivery, protests, posters, press releases and coverage, advice from consultations, presentations and representation at council meetings etc. SOLVE will only be successful if hundreds of people get personally involved. 

SOLVE needs volunteers to:

• Deliver leaflets & put up posters
• Attend protests & planning meetings
• Participate in letter writing, form filling and email communications
• Help plan and manage a campaign
• Make presentations at parish, village and community meetings
• Make donations

Please email us at contacts@solveloddon.org  or Kate Tuck 01256 324043 with your contact details so we know how to reach you and make sure you are part of a successful campaign. Silence and inaction will only end in up to 9000 new homes on our doorstep!

www.solveloddon.org