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A new town of this size will devastate historic Stratford

• This is a rural setting without the transport infrastructure to sustain a huge increase in homes and people journeys

• Expert local opinion is against the proposal:

  • there simply isn’t the need for 6,000 new houses at Long Marston and it runs counter to the regional housing plans

  • there aren’t enough jobs to sustain 10-20,000 new residents in the area

  • these people would simply end up driving elsewhere in the region to find work, making a fallacy of the Govt’s ‘eco’ initiative                                  more............