ECO TOWN: A minister with super sight '“ and developers who can't tell brown fields from green

IF Caroline Flint, our eagle-eyed housing minister, looked at the whole Eco-Town site from the runway at Ford Airfield (Gazette letters, August 14), can I suggest that Gordon Brown puts her in charge of NHS ophthalmic services nationally?

By The Newsroom

Published 27th Aug 2008, 14:30 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:09 BST

How can she possibly have seen "the whole site" '” up to the railway line at the north of Ford, down toward the Oystercatcher at Climping and to the far side of Yapton '” from there?

The developers claim that the site is a brownfield site and will not acknowledge that it is almost all agricultural green fields '” let's hope that Mrs Flint can see through their pretence!

One correction that should be made is to Tony Dixon's assertion (Gazette letters, August 14) that the community campaign is "council-led".

That is a blatant untruth and we can only wonder at his motives for repeating it so often.

Geoff Dixon,

The Beaches,

Climping

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