Thursday 18 September 2008

Madness of the Government Minister

A small point, but in the Secretary of State's overruling of her expert panel's response to the Regional Assembly (which at least has some democratically elected representatives serving on it), in massively increasing the number of houses some areas (including Reigate and Banstead) will have to allow she appears to have ignored the natural world. I'll elaborate; there if a finite amount of water in the underground chalk aquifer that serves much of East Surrey, including Redhill and Tandridge. By nearly doubling the number of homes needed to be be built in Redhill, she appears to believe that she can apportion some of the water to flow to where it goes now to Tandridge to prevent development in Redhill from causing existing homes to run dry. This appears to ignore the laws of physics. Or maybe she believes that she can direct the natural elements in the same way she directs councils.