The absolute last thing Weymouth needs is another ginormous suburbia development.

And the last thing Weymouth requires is a suburban sprawl spread out in the wrong place. 

This time, the Southill area, where, quite rightly, the residents who currently reside there are up in arms that ‘380’ properties might be built on their doorstep. 

But what is much more alarming, is that such planning proposals are taken seriously by West Dorset District Council who have the power to make or break them. 

Yes, we do need more housing. 

However, allowing the possible go ahead of building up to 380 houses in an area where even someone with one functioning brain-cell could foresee all the future problems that it would entail, is beyond rational belief.

So far as Savills (acting as the agent for the as yet, unknown developer), is concerned, its agenda of course, is to make the plans of the developer appear as rosy as possible. 

As for Savills’ claims that the developer will take a ‘holistic approach to sustainability’, and also ensuring that ‘access to bus stops’ will ‘provide an alternative means of travel to private car use’, is pure fantasy. 

And they probably know it. 

What sort of planet are these people living on? 

Definitely not the one most of us live on. Do they really believe that if a few hundred houses are built at Southill, the vast majority of the residents who will live there will voluntarily abandon their cars (or bother to own or rent one) and jump on a bus instead. 

No they won’t! 

This latest proposed development is nothing more than a wishful pie-in-the-sky money making project. The whole idea that the Southill area will blossom into an idealised idyll if this planning plot comes to fruition, is bordering on the fanciful. 

Andrew Martin
Kitchener Road
Weymouth