IN his letter published in your July 5 edition (Just when is a village not a village?), Mr Collins raises the point that West Wiltshire District Council regards Paxcroft Mead as an urban extension of Trowbridge.
While this may well be the view of the planning department at the district council, I can assure him it is not a view shared by Hilperton Parish Council!
We have had a huge input into the new development dating back from the drawing board stage, through getting the originally planned floor area of the community centre doubled, up to our recent financial aid for the Jubilee celebrations at both the community centre and The Mead school (where we have a seat on the governors as we are the 'Minor Local Authority'). So far as we are concerned Paxcroft Mead is a rural development which just happens to straddle the boundary between Hilperton Marsh and Trowbridge.
With regard to the three advertising signs, I would suggest that he also complains to the trading standards department about the fact that the signs state '1,100 Quality Homes'. Either the developers cannot count, or they are admitting that not all the houses on Paxcroft Mead are 'quality', as, if they are allowed to get away with it, there are going to be well over 1,100 homes by the time the development is finished.
E CLARK,
Chairman,
Hilperton Parish Council.
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