ABSTRACT
The Corporation stated that it would welcome any comments, but that particularly welcome were comments as to the size of the expanded area, and the direction of expansion. The Corporation requested that comments were returned by 28 February. The Corporation’s analysis demonstrated that the majority of comments entered ‘a plea for no expansion’, although a few welcomed expansion ‘particularly in relation to housing and employment’. The present planning is friendless, faceless and has no character or thought for those living in the homes other than to separate the people from the road traffic. The Borough Council’s position was clarified somewhat in June 1975, when in its magazine it stated that ‘the whole subject of future expansion had been raised on many occasions in the past ten years, and the Borough Council, despite reservations, have always been aware that an expansion of approximately 1,000 acres is necessary to meet local requirements’.
