We learn that Pershore Town Council has drawn up a shopping list of nice things to buy when (if) it receives the cash bonanza from the building of 600 houses on Station Road.
More urgent questions need to be considered. Will the essential road improvements be made before the house-building programme begins or are we all to suffer the movements of countless heavy trucks? Hundreds of children use the road daily. Is there no regard for their safety during all of this? What of foul water drainage to cope with the extra households? Or will extra sewage mains be installed long afterwards – leading to even more disruption. Six hundred homes suggest 1,500 extra potential GP patients. So will local GP practices be expanded or a new one created? And there will be demand for more school places. Will new first/middle schools be built? There are many examples of communities blighted for lack of joined-up thinking on the part of planning authorities. Is Pershore about to be added to the list? The town council should seek answers to these before planning a spending spree.
David Bridgewater
Pershore
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