IT is strange to see that the Core Strategy only covers the south west corner of Tavistock with its urbanisation of the Tavy Valley while ignoring the rest of the town. Are there no strategic planning needs anywhere else in Tavistock?
Shouldn't St Rumon's be moved to a proper greenfield site away from the main road?
Shouldn't Dolvin Road be linked to Plymouth Road via a new Pixon Lane?
Doesn't Tavistock need to find a retail site for the next supermarket in the town centre?
Shouldn't any development provide free car parking in the town to encourage us all to use the town centre?
Isn't there a need for some housing development to be sited on the north and east fringes of the town to ensure the centre stays in the centre?
We need a plan for the whole of Tavistock not just the desecration of the Tavy Valley.
Nick Holt-Martyn
East Crowndale Farm
Tavistock
CONCERNING West Devon Borough Council's Core Strategy document, recently circulated: I submitted detailed, adverse, comments to the strategic planning unit, last October.
Far from mitigating any of the objections to the scheme, this version gives the impression that it will be carried through regardless of any opinions of the inhabitants of Tavistock; the 'vision' on page three seems curiously prescient, whereas most of the text is vague. It is admitted that the present infrastructure is inadequate.
There is no mention of the results of consultations already made, no analysis of the probable usage of the section of reinstated railway, no provision of parking space at the station or at the proposed hospital, no mention of the cost, financial and environmental, of the new link road. Will the 40% 'affordable' houses be subsidised, or just small and inferior? How many houses in the area are at present unsold? Much more than seven hectares of open space will be lost, while to speak of enhanced wildlife corridors is ridiculous. The only likely beneficiaries will be the developers.
Mary Freeman
Parkwood Road
Tavistock