IN YOUR March 2 issue you headline that James Dyson has bought the majority of the old airbase and that in your opinion “the residents in the nearby village of Hullavington have been left delighted”.
Well, I’ve been a resident of Hullavington for 30 years and most people I talk to are disappointed that the base is not to be used for housing, which is needed probably more than employment at the moment.
Gavin Barwell, the housing minister, declared on national radio that we need to build 200,000 houses a year and 15 garden towns by the end of this parliament and he stressed that it would all be done on brownfield land. The only major area of brownfield land to become available for years has now gone.
Therefore all the houses that are required in this area, and those for some of the workers at the Dyson facility, will be built on agricultural land. Money speaks the loudest, eh?
PETER TRACEY
Hullavington
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