Pat Hooper, of Kingsteignton, writes: Here we go again. The councils forced by the unelected regional assembly have to build allocations of housing and industrial areas against the democratic wishes of the local inhabitants. If they doubt my words, then let's have a vote by each householder in the Newton Abbot/Kingsteignton area to get a straight answer to the question: 'Do we want a substantial proportion of new housing built?' Please don't put in that ambiguous Affordable Housing nonsense. The last houses so called affordable were sold as holiday homes for £250,000 in Shaldon. if you want to go down that road, why not give the youngsters a subsidy or build a thing called council houses? What infuriates me is that each time we in the village of Kingsteignton are subjected to massive increases of population, no infrastructure comes with it. For each new inhabitant in an area there needs to be an investment of £150,000 to £200,000, for the infrastructure, ie schools, hospitals, doctors, dentists libraries police, fire, electricity water etc and especially roads. The roads aren't merely feeders for the new estates, but major arteries such as bypasses to Newton/Kingsteignton/Kingskerswell etc. This needs to be in place before the development. If you do not spend the £150,000 per person on the infrastructure you see an obvious general decline in the quality of residents' standard of living. Still, I feel as most residents in Kingsteignton do, that by the amount of land preparation in this area that it is a done deal and has been for a couple of years. Democracy. or the lack of it.
