WITH reference to the article in the Daily Echo on January 25, we are concerned about what was said by the new Southampton Port director Nick Ridehalgh regarding the possible sale of the MOD land at Marchwood.
Our worries are as follows: 1. The roads and infrastructure cannot take much more in the way of HGVs, the resultant congestion and air pollution.
2. Marchwood could lose its village identity and become another enclave to Southampton, which the village does not want.
Marchwood residents already suffer noise pollution from the Southampton container port and therefore are worried that if ABP get their hands on the MOD land at Marchwood, this too will become a part of the ever-spreading docks and house containers.
This might not sound too bad to the residents of Hythe and Dibden Bay area but they can be sure once ABP come to the Waterside they will spread straight down to the land they already own at Dibden Bay with little to stop them.
B. J. REEVE and M. J. REEVE, Marchwood.
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