The local tory council have passed under COVID (the planning officer only needs to approve not the full council) rules plans for an extra 2000 homes in our village. That will double it's size without any new infrastructure & it is the same across Suffolk.
The next village to ours has doubled in size over the last 6-8 years with no real increase in infrastructure. People move to the village from an urban house and then complain:
1) There are no places in the village schools
2) The doctors surgery is over-subscribed (2600 patients per GP, IIRC, national average is around 1800)
3) Farmers and horses make a mess
4) The village Co-Op is too small
The local authority had failed to approve a planning strategy which meant that every planning case that went to appeal the local decision was over-turned. The most recent 200 houses are on a site where the only access is the narrow road past two of the schools. The planning documents ramble on about walking distances to amenities and public transport routes. The reality is that 200 houses = 400 cars.
