Anger over Grange Park decision over 450 houses
Residents of Grange Park have reacted with anger to the backing of plans to build up to 450 new homes in their village.
After the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC) backed the scheme earlier this week, the Chron has been inundated with angry Grange Park residents calling on the Government to overturn the decision.
On the Chron's website, Grange Park resident James claimed people living in the new homes would suffer because current facilities in the area were already at capacity.
He said: "It's all well and good getting a house but your children can't go to the Grange Park school, your 'local' dentist will be in Wellingborough, your 'local' doctors' surgery will be in Kingsthorpe and the roads will be even more congested, so getting in and out of Grange Park will take even longer."
He was backed by fellow resident Stevie, who called on MP Brian Binley to raise the matter in Parliament.
He said: "I truly hope Brian Binley follows up his promise to take this issue up with the Secretary of State and questions the authority of the WNDC and bodies like it to over-ride virtually every other public body involved in such planning applications. I, for one, am disgusted."
The WNDC has insisted it took the decision to back the plan after "weighing up an extensive body of evidence, including responses from the transport, education and health authorities and submissions from local people".
And Tony Clarke, the area's former MP, who in 2003 led calls backing Ikea's plans to build a superstore on the site, said he still believed the loss of the furniture firm was a great setback for Northampton.
He said: "An outsider would get the idea that Grange Park residents just don't want anything built on that land and would continue to object no matter what the proposals were.
"At the end of the day, I think the latest plans might be making the best of a bad job.
"But I still believe Northampton would have benefited as a whole if Ikea had gone ahead here instead of Milton Keynes."
A final decision on the 450 homes plan will now be made by the Government.
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