This is an open letter to the people of
Alton in Hampshire, my home town:
People of Alton (and there abouts),
There is a battle raging in the town over whether the Coors Brewery should be permitted to sell their sports facilities (what's known as the Bass sports ground) near Anstey Park. Many of the local residents object to this for many reasons:
- there is a covenant on the current sports ground stating it should remain in use only for sport
- relocation of sports facilities to Anstey Park means massive loss of public green space in the town
- the coors site would be redeveloped as a supermarket or possibly dense housing
Why should the town lose a park so Coors can profit from land sales on which there is a covenant?
If you agree, you can find out more information from:
http://ansteyresidents.org.uk/
http://www.weloveansteypark.com/
http://saveansteypark.org.uk/
or the Facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=299652801351
Things you can do to help:
Display the poster from the weloveansteypark.com web site
Object to the two planning applications concerned,
http://www.ansteyresidents.org.uk/object_to_footballhub.php
http://www.ansteyresidents.org.uk/object_to_supermarket.php
These campaigns are all fighting the same cause with the aim to protect our open spaces and ensure any development is sympathetic to the surrounding area and sited appropriately in the town.
Thanks for your time in reading this,
Graham White
