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01/02/2009, 10:55 AM freind of weeting Joined on 01/02/2009 Posts 1 Should it be Birds or People? After reading the item in this weeks paper I was concerned that people want to build on what is essencially green belt land.  The whole idea of living in a "village" is for the "village life" and that includes the birds.  What seams to be happening here is that the farmers are havinga rough time at the moment and trying to cash in, and the land owner in question is using the writer of this piece to get it passed. This is not the first time as before with the intension of building 99 houses on the village playing fields.  This almost caused the closure of the village hall by the monies being exhausted.  In the end this type of project is detrimental to the enviroment and also upsets the ballance in the "village".  I know that I for one moved here over 20 years ago to get out of the rat race.  If I, and others, who express the same veiws, had wanted to live in a built up metropolis then we would of moved there.  The whole idea of a "village" is that its small and personel.  Everyone knows who you are and you can also have your own space.  May be if the writer of this article is so keen to have his enviroment built up then he should move out of the VILLAGE. Oxford English Dictoinary - VILLAGE - small group of houses in a country area - rural community.    Report

02/02/2009, 4:16 PM The Cooks Joined on 02/02/2009 Posts 1 Re: Should it be Birds or People? Like you I am very worried about what our Parish Councillors and Breckland Councillor are up to.  We have lived in Weeting for over thirty years and we do not want hundreds of houses or the Brandon by pass going through our village.  Of course no matter how much he protests his innocence Mr R Childerhouse Breckland DC is part of the Childerhouse family, who own the land and can make a fortune from using the land for building, why else did he stand for District Council?  The Nature Reserve brings thousands of people from all over the country to see the Stone Curlew, which is a very rare bird, any massive building project or building a by pass will endanger this species.  On the subject of houses, there are already many many houses lying empty in the village so they certainly can't make lack of homes the reason for any major building.  The Bowls Club has spent thousands of pounds on a new roof/extention/refurbishment and as a member I know they would certainly not want it to be pulled down and built elsewhere.  In these days of amalgamation of health services the new thinking all over the country is to build large health centres, closing down small surgeries and this is planned for Brandon.  There would be no chance of a surgery in Weeting as they have a hard enough task finding doctors for Brandon.  Get into the real world and stop dreaming Parish Councillors.    Report

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