You can’t rewrite history, Richard (From Worcester News)

You can’t rewrite history, Richard

8:10am Friday 12th March 2010 in

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SIR – It is distressing to me when Richard Burt tries to rewrite history to suit his party political ambitions.

It was a Lib Dem district council in Malvern Hills in 2004 that endorsed the Government’s regional spatial strategy (RSS) proposing 24,500 houses in our county, and we have been trying to sort this mess ever since.

I will be more gracious than Mr Burt by saying that any district council must co-operate with the Government eventually, or else the Government will replace our planners with their own to finish the job, which could have devastating results.

Your Conservative district councillors are working hard to minimise the potential damage that RSS might inflict, and as chairman of a group from Malvern, Wychavon and Worcester city councils, we are charged to recommend a sensible joint development strategy with real and achievable improvements to our infrastructure.

I would remind Mr Burt it is only the Conservatives who have pledged to abolish the RSS, and regional quangos, together with Labour’s Stalinist approach to planning.

Only a Conservative vote will prevent this excessive overdevelopment. Any other vote will weaken the Conservatives’ position and allow a continuation of the strategy that Mr Burt’s party originally endorsed.

Coun David Hughes
Alfrick