Sir, SODC’s misleading information display at Cholsey pavilion about 128 new homes being our allocation only goes to 2011. It claims that the population has increased by only 59 people since 2001. It takes no account of the 350 extra homes recently built at the Fairmile site.
An SODC officer, Lucy Murkett, argued that the 350 extra new homes built in Cholsey were taken into account in the ‘headline figure’ for the entire South Oxfordshire district when deciding allocations for SODC’s 12 villages.
This is flawed logic: Cholsey got all 350 that were counted for the entire district. This means that the other villages in the district have been spared their share of the 350. Unless each other village has already had 350 extra homes built in it, then Cholsey has had more than its fair share already and should therefore have no extra homes.
For Cholsey to end up with 350 plus 128 on top of its existing 1,300 homes means enlarging the ‘village’ by 36 per cent. The fairest distribution of new homes is to do this enlargement calculation for each village.
Henry Pavlovich, Honey Lane, Cholsey
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