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    ohec wrote:
    What is needed in this country is a housing market that is a true reflection of peoples earnings and in order to get that we need a massive price crash to bring property down to realistic levels so they are affordable for many more people thus reducing the strain on the rental market, you also appear to have the British obsession of buying houses, the so-called property ladder that surprise surprise not everybody wants to get on as you say you made your choice to go without a family holidays or a new car to save for that magical deposit but others would sooner have children holidays and cars its all a matter of choice.
    No they would rather have the maintenance & modernisation done for them whilst they have brand new cars & two holidays plus smart phones,smart TV's & then if that's threatened they go to the food bank rather than buy food.
    I know & anyone being honest knows Council/affordable housing was only ever intended for low paid working class people not well paid people who want to live the high life.
    If you weeded out the ones who could quite easily afford to buy I wonder how large the housing waiting list would be?"
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Eastleigh residents protest over plans for 1,000 homes at beauty spot

6:40pm Thursday 31st May 2012 in Environment Photograph of the Author By Bethan Phillips , Reporter

Protesters at Stoneham Park campaign against the proposed development of more than 1,000 homes in the area. Protesters at Stoneham Park campaign against the proposed development of more than 1,000 homes in the area.

ANGRY residents have demonstrated at a beauty spot earmarked for more than 1,000 houses.

About 50 people went to Stoneham Park in Eastleigh to raise awareness that the greenfield land is under threat from the bulldozers.

The 61-acre site, near Chestnut Avenue, has appeared in Eastleigh Borough Council’s Draft Local Plan as a possible area to build 1,300 new homes.

Campaigners say it would lead to traffic chaos and destroy one of the last green gaps between Eastleigh and Southampton.

Protest organiser Pat Ford said she was happy with the turnout, but disappointed that more Eastleigh borough councillors did not turn up.

She said: “We asked all 44 councillors on the borough – five replied, 39 ignored us and none came.

“I think it’s disgusting.

“But it was a really good turnout.”

Eastleigh North’s Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Thomas, also the chairman of the council’s Eastleigh Local Area Committee, said: “Councillors have many commitments and in my case I did not actually receive an invitation.

However, in this case the local plan has got a long way to go and any representations would be more useful when made directly to the council.”

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The leader of the council’s Conservative group, Councillor Godfrey Olson, said that he had been unable to attend.

He said: “I had been to a similar event three or four weeks beforehand when Mrs Ford took me around.

“I am totally opposed to building on that land for so many reasons.

It is a lovely rural setting, it will destroy the park, it will create traffic and it takes away recreational space.”

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