26/09/12…An ‘alphabet soup’ of housing sites

Dear Editor, I’ve been trying to catch up on the situation relating to the Thame Neighbourhod Plan and was perplexed for some time with an alphabet soup of proposed sites – A… F.. D… B…C etc. Have I left one out? I remember the original proposals and attended two meetings but I found today that I had to hunt for the key to these areas, as I had forgotten the details.

This is not a criticism of the Thame Council’s information service. There’s a welter of stuff to deal with. Anyway, here’s a reference if anyone else has the problem I did: /www.thametowncouncil.gov.uk See pages 18 -21 . I’m not entirely sure now that I’ve found the latest version of the proposed sites. I’m happy to be corrected, even to be regarded as a bit dim. I gather people’s views have to be submitted by October 3.

I hope to send in mine but for the purpose of this letter, I would venture to say that if the natural boundary of the by-pass is breached by building housing on its eastern side, that could be the thin end of a very large wedge, extending towards Towersey and Princes Risborough. I should perhaps declare an interest because of where I live, but I think that concern would be with me wherever I lived in Thame.

Norman Brand
Thame resident