[Stones] New houses for Avebury?

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In a message dated 11/01/2008 10:35:45 GMT Standard Time,  
jane at janetomlinson.com writes:

This may be an unpopular view, but I have quite a lot of  sympathy for the 
villagers of Avebury. They can potentially see their  community dying. The 
school's closed now and a village school is a  village's beating heart - its 
future. A few well designed houses,  affordable to the locals, would help to keep 
the community living. Part of  Avebury's charm is that it IS a village, too. 



Hi Jane,
The problem with the Avebury area is that it's rather important to a vast  
number of stakeholders, and they don't all have the same priorities. So what we  
have is a turf war. Who should win? Or should there be simply a compromise, 
in  which case everyone loses, a bit.
 
I can see there's a case for keeping the village as a viable entity, for  the 
sake of adding to the charm of the whole place but I rather doubt that is  
what is going on here. The application is for three bedroom houses which don't  
sound very "affordable" to me.
 
Going back to the turf war thing. Pro-the development are Avebury Parish  
Council and the Kennet planners. Against it is every heavy-duty conservation and  
heritage protection body you can name. I can't help thinking a home win or 
even  a score draw wouldn't fairly reflect the respective rights of all the  
stakeholders in all this. I might be wrong to see it this way I don't know, it's  
an impossible situation really.
 
One thing - Kate Fielder in her submission has suggested the houses might  
have a detrimental effect on the view of the north of the henge in winter.  That 
needs thinking about.  



   
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