HOUSING AND FLOODING DANGER

  Further to your request for comments on the above, may I draw the Committee's attention to the present planning proposals for locating a major expansion of housing in the Cheltenham / Gloucester area of the Severn Valley whilst restricting severely development of housing in the towns and villages of the Cotswolds.

  We have consistency made representations to Ministers that such planning is disastrous and will expose such housing to regular flooding whilst preventing the communities in the Cotswolds to attract and hold the young people it badly needs to provide balanced social cohesion.

Timothy Royle

Former Chairman and Counsellor of Cotswold District Council

August 2007