WEST Devon Borough Council states in its vision for the future 'to make West Devon a model area of sustainability'. The council's recent draft proposal for a huge house building programme in Okehampton, Tavistock and surrounding villages is unsustainable in regard to waste management.

We are currently requested by West Devon Borough Council. to assist in recycling our waste by sorting and composting. We are also charged within our council tax bills to pay to implement the recycling scheme.

This is because our landfill sites are a finite resource and rapidly filling up. Yet West Devon's planners want to create thousands more households which in turn will produce thousands more tons of waste.

In reality, by currently helping recycle waste we are actually aiding and abetting this ill-conceived building development by temporarily reducing the importance of this critical factor the council planners need to consider.

I disagree with government and West Devon Borough Council's house building policy. Therefore, I am ceasing recycling as a peaceful protest until the planners return to their senses and responsibility to provide a sustainable housing development policy that responds to the democratic wishes and proven needs of local people, not to bad government policy and the lobbying by greedy developers.

Should readers disagree with the current house building policy I invite them to join my protest.

Kate Harmer

Lifton

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