Our aim is to protect the town and prevent a repeat at Epsom
Last week (October 8,) you published a letter from Andrew Biddle of Newmarket under the heading 'Time to look at the bigger picture'.
The letter stated the writer had attended the Save Historic Newmarket Action Group public meeting on September 17 (although our records show that he did not register, as did the other attendees).
Also, that he thought it was a good idea for Lord Derby to build 1,200-plus homes along with industrial units and a car park on Hatchfield Farm, because of the direct access to the A14 (do we hear the words dormitory town for Cambridge?) instead of having 750 already approved houses being built throughout Newmarket.
Mr Biddle asserted that the Save Historic Newmarket Action Group's arguments against Lord Derby's massive Hatchfield Farm development neither appeared well reasoned nor 'a genuine desire to preserve a greenfield site'.
Your readers might like to know the following:
Andrew Biddle lives in a house on Woodlands Stud, Newmarket, owned by Lord Derby and he is employed by Lord Derby at Woodlands Stud (which adjoins Hatchfield Farm).
As Newmarket residents will have noticed, in recent years Forest Heath District Council has already approved applications to build hundreds more houses throughout Newmarket.
It is not a case of either building these houses or building 1,200-plus at Hatchfield Farm.
If Lord Derby gets his way, the 1,200-plus houses will be built on Hatchfield Farm in addition to the hundreds more already built or approved in Newmarket.
For avoidance of doubt, possibly unlike Andrew Biddle, the Save Historic Newmarket Action Group has no ulterior motive regarding Hatchfield Farm but genuinely wishes to preserve this greenfield site.
Why? So that our unique and historic Newmarket is protected from the over-population and urbanisation which has destroyed Epsom.
Unfortunately, despite Lord Derby's disingenuous pretence of philanthropy, his motives for developing greenfield Hatchfield Farm cannot be other than self-interest.
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