Eco-town 'being dropped on Ford like an H-bomb'

A NEW 5,000-home eco-town proposed for Ford could be a highly successful Crawley-style development, a West Sussex County Council select committee was told.

By The Newsroom

Published 27th May 2008, 15:02 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:24 BST

The claim was made by Cllr John Mortimer, a Labour member representing the Ifield, Langley Green and West Green division, who said the New Town Commission made a very good job of setting up Crawley in 1946.

"There is no reason why this eco-town could not be equally successful for this part of West Sussex," he said.

But other members of the strategic environmental services select committee and a cabinet member strongly disagreed.

Cllr Clive Roberts, the cabinet member for strategic planning and highways, said members had heard about the development being parachuted in to Ford but it was more like an H-bomb.

"It is unbelievable," he said. "I am totally opposed to this, and I will do everything I can."

Crawley was completely different '“ it was put into an area in the middle of Sussex that previously had nothing in it.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette May 28