Letter: Claims that Our Infrastructure Can Cope Are Fanciful

Published on: 15 Mar, 2025
Updated on: 14 Mar, 2025

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From Ben Paton

In response to: Our Sewers Cannot Cope with More Homes

Wouldn’t it be nice if our politicians reasoned from objective verifiable facts – like those that Mr Allen has for years been consistently bringing to the attention of Dragon readers?

Instead, we have had to put up with the pie-in-the-sky “vision” and “Local Plan trajectory” put in place by Cllrs Mansbridge and Juneja and continued by Cllrs Spooner and Furniss and now by the Liberal Democrats.

We laugh at President Trump’s claims about Canada and Greenland. The same scorn should be directed at the fanciful claims made by all levels of Government in England that our infrastructure can support its housebuilding white elephants.

Those claims are as reliable as the claims that Woking Borough Council and Thames Water made a couple of years ago that they were not bust.