South Woodham Action Group (SWAG) has voiced concerns over the possibility of Chelmsford Borough Council scrapping the local plan to stop 1,900 new homes at Boreham
SWAG successfully fought to remove more than 1,000 new homes for South Woodham from the early stages of the plan, which is a blueprint for development in the borough until 2011.
This week the borough council's new Conservative administration looked set to ditch the plan to relieve Boreham, but some fear this could mean South Woodham ends up back on the major development agenda.
SWAG chairman Kevin Green said: "We would be very upset indeed if any of the houses due for Boreham came back our way having won the argument in the first place to take them off.
"From our point of view we are partly disappointed with the whole thing having gone so far and it now looking less likely to go to public inquiry, which we have been preparing for two years. But we will await any new plans from the borough council with interest."
He did, however, applaud the possibility that the council will dispute with central government in court the number of homes it has been told to build in the borough.
"We welcome people trying to look at the number of houses allocated to this part of Essex. We have always felt it is too many," he said
Published Thursday, June 12, 2003
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