WHY do the campaigners against West Devon Borough Council's development plan seem to think they are the only people with right and logic on their side?
Housing, both affordable and social, (the latter conveniently ignored by Mel Stride) is needed in West Devon.
A greenfield site is surely a better choice than dispersal. The latter would cause considerable difficulties for the current town area.
Jeremy Davies seems to think that if the equivalent number of houses were somehow built in the town they would not also have traffic and environmental consequences.
The core strategy clearly iterates a range of key features; they may not all happen immediately but they do offer the possibility for real improvements for transport (both rail and road), housing, a local hospital and employment.
It is unlikely that any of this would happen without the Plan.
Actually many of the people opposed to the Strategy are against any change to Tavistock. The very low numbers who voted in 'the Parish poll' were not suprisingly against it as it was they who organised the poll.
The borough council has been brave to stand up to the protesters whose views we have heard a great deal but theirs is not the only opinion.
Ian Gasper
Marshall Close
Tavistock