Newtonhill & District Village Association

I know that people opposed the development of the houses in the area which I now live in and I can sympathise with that a great deal, however, the extra homes in the village also brought a brand new primary school. However, at the moment, the proposed developments are all entirely developer-led and take no account of the thoughts and feelings of the existing residents. Of course, developers are only in the business of making money. They care not a jot for the effects on the existing residents and don't particularly care if the new residents end up living cheek by jowl. IF extra houses are bolted onto Newtonhill, there will be no provision for any extra amenities, which means that Newtonhill stands to gain nothing, but lose a lot of its character, feel and amenity. People MUST voice their concerns and fight to maintain what at present is a really lovely village to live in, just the right size and with lovely countryside around it which I feel very lucky to be able to run and cycle around. Aberdeenshire Council is constantly banging on about the "city and shire" brand and what a fantastic quality of life we have in this area, and for the moment I agree with that, but it unfortunately seems that this quality of life is to be eroded.

Yes, houses have to be built somewhere because people have to live somewhere, but must it necessarily be to the detriment of the existing population? That's the question. How much negative impact should any new developments be allowed to have?

Many people, 20 Years ago were against building new homes in the villiage. Local opinion i would say was generally against the expansion. Never the less it happend and many more houses were built. People have to live somewhere.

There are going to be 60,000 new homes built in Aberdeenshire at least as part of the local plan, a good chunk of them will be built in the Aberdeen - Stonehaven corridor so regardless of whether the Elsick estate is 'picked' it's likely to be mean significant amounts of extra cars on the duel carridgeway. The houses have to be built somewhere, i can well imagine the residents of Elsick Villiage and Newtonhill up in arms over a new development on their doorstep in 20 years time.

Yer welcome any time Kev... mind you.. I might let yer tyres down just for a laugh.. Hee Hee....

Col

Touched a nerve then did I...... Hee Hee

Yep, forgot about the 4x4 school run Henryetas.... lol

Who does this "eejit" think he is? Does he think we all came up the clyde on a banana boat?? Maybe he is one of the aliens that we hear about from time to time the buzz around Muchalls and Newtonhill..... Scary stuff when you think he is supposed to be "educated"!! Well, the old sayin "there is only one thing more dangerous than a fool, and, that is an educated fool"! rings true!!. We'll probaly end up with another 6000 hooray Henry's clogging up our country roads and the A90... "BLISS"...

cynical Col.....

I'm always prepared to listen to well-reasoned arguments, but when someone is trying to tell me that the people living in 6000 houses with access to the A90 *won't* be travelling into Aberdeen on the A90 most mornings I reserve the right to take it with a pinch of salt!