CURRENTLY the average price of a house in the area is over ten times the average salary. The reason for this can only be that there are more people wanting to buy a house than there are houses to buy — simple economics really. In short, we need more houses and yet there are people who resist any being built at all.
Every housing development was new once and every one of them had innumerable detractors from the outset.
You may find your home charming but I guarantee that when it was built hundreds of people considered it a horrendous and unnecessary carbuncle that cheapened and degraded the area. Angry letters were written and fist fights broke out just because someone felt the need to build your home.
These houses need to be built, no argument no matter how heartfelt or irrational can overcome that.
The benefits for the community far outweigh the minor irritation that a few people may feel because a small patch of grass disappears from their view.
Seven hundred households can do a lot of good for a local economy, improved school facilities will do endless good for education, land dedicated to employment will keep a lot of people in work and improved transport links will ease congestion as well as provide a viable rail link to Plymouth and the rest of Great Britain.
To look after the future of Tavistock the proposed development must go ahead.
Dan Massey
Drake Road
Tavistock