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Decade Too Late Appearance
(April 24, 2024)The belated appearance of a Member of Parliament at a place that has been awash with problems for more than a decade as housing development floods the agendas that councillors tackle.
Town councillors, elected to use their local knowldge serve on the town planning advisory committee that is consulted by county council planners, lose battle after battle with developers in the former market but increasingly dormitory town of Warminter.
"For the forty years that I have lived here I cannot remember a more inappropriate remark from an MP," claims former councillor Paul Macdonald.
"And why was county councillor Andrew Davi who represents our ward missing?
"In what is clearly a public relations exercise this was my response to his comment.
"It is in a letter to the Warminster Journal about fthe flooding issue at the Boreham Road and Bishopstrow mini roundabout area now making things worse for others."
General Election On Its Way
'Dear Editors
The Warminster Journal report on page six (Friday 19th April 2024) reported that the MP, a county councillor but not the local member, an anonymous official, and a resident met to discuss flooding at what was known locally as Spurt Mead.
Am I being a cynic or is this a general election year?
Horses here for a time but it was too wet on this meadow in Boreham Road. They had long bolted. It had served a different purpose year after yea for many years.
Downstream social media now regularly carries more and more flood warnings from government agencies.
Local people knew what would would happen if this natural sponge for downpours was replaced by housing and yet now 'the unprecedented degree of flooding' suddenly becomes a news item.
The MP said ' There appears to be a simple engineering solution ".
Great news except who is going to pay for this and this sort of work is never inexpensive because previous experience in our town shows that once it is fully investigated it becomes more complex? The developer? The local taxpayer?
It should be the government for giving planning permission in the first place.
Will everyone from the Government, the local MP and County Councils planners start listening to local knowledge and the town council ever again
Yours sincerely
Paul Macdomald'