Our concerns

Here in detail are our main concerns with the proposed eco-town development on the Long Marston site

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A new town of this size will devastate historic Stratford

• This is a rural setting without the transport infrastructure to sustain a huge increase in homes and people journeys
• Expert local opinion is against the proposal:
  • there simply isn’t the need for 6,000 new houses at Long Marston and it runs counter to the regional housing plans
  • there aren’t enough jobs to sustain 10-20,000 new residents in the area
  • these people would simply end up driving elsewhere in the region to find work, making a fallacy of the Govt’s ‘eco’ initiative

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