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I've not posted this before as I'm not sure of the possible infringements of posting rules, but if any moderators feel I've stepped out of line, or this post is inappropriate please feel free to delete this post.

The village I live in, Harlington is quite a small village of around 1000 households and is quite close to the M1 motorway and a mainline train link into London. However, it is still pretty rural and has some stunning areas around it.

For quite some time now there has been discussion/debate regarding a proposed development of a new football stadium for Luton (which is around 8 miles away) Town Football Club, alongside new warehousing and distribution right next to our village (the boundaries of the development would be approximately 100 yards from my house). Recent activity regarding Luton Town FC having gone into administration and subsequently being bought out by a consortium has meant that the focus has moved away from the stadium and development, but things have still been going on in the background.

Yesterday a planning application was submitted for the development (details yet to be made available) and the campaign has stepped up a gear. There is a steering group and campaign network, our local version CaSH (Campaign for Sustainable Harlington) is headed up by Mike Benner who is doing a stirling job running the campaign alongside his day job as the Chief Executive of CaMRA (Campaign For Real Ale for those that don't know).

I am asking for anyone that feels they would like to sign the petition to visit the campaign website:

CaSH home page

and sign the online petition. We are delivering leaflets locally next week to help keep the message at the forefront of people's minds, everything we can do helps hopefully.

Thanks for reading.

Wayne

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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We have similar issues with an Eco town of 20000 houses being planned for just outside our village.

Good luck.

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Kindest regards, David.

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updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

signed - good luck

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Suzie

Personally, I'd prefer housing, if we had the choice that is. Although, 20,000 compared to the 1000 that we have at the moment would make quite an impact.

Do you have a petition going?

Thanks piskie!

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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signed Wayne, hope it helps.

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Have signed, best of luck mate.

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

Signed. What is the point of Green Belt?

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Consider it done !

I class this as a swap - my signature for your piece of mind !

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---) CARL (----
ILFRACOMBE
NORTH DEVON

a seed planted today makes a meal tomorrow!

www.freewebs.com/carlseawolf

now in blog form ! UPDATED 01 / 04 / 08

Signed, and seeds arrived this morning [thanks]

I thought they were trying to make Luton greener not greyer...

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Andrea :wavehello

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...logs/zazen999/

moon trials completed:
tomatoes
[46% increase in crop per seed sown and 10% increase in crop per plant]

currently underway:
calabrese
garlic

http://linearlegume.blogspot.com/

Thanks, and you're welcome.

And a quick thanks to all those signed up so far, it's appreciated.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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signed and good luck!

And another one.

Just a point Heywayne, I used to be involved with Local government on planning issues some time ago. Petitions are fine but what really carries the weight is individual letters from the locals.

Best of luck. High time someone tried to stop the UK being covered with concrete!!!!!!!!

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Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

Thanks for the info roitelet, letters have been sent already but I think we're likely to send others now that the application has been made. There's a meeting being held with local councillors at the beginning of April. Fingers crossed.

I think if it comes to it I will likely don my Swampy outfit and climb the nearest tree.

Does put me in a bit of a quandry given that I work in the construction industry...

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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I've emailed it to friends in Luton [I had the pleasure of working out of a office in the city centre for a few years, so lots of great mates in Luton], they will pass it around the network.

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Andrea :wavehello

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...logs/zazen999/

moon trials completed:
tomatoes
[46% increase in crop per seed sown and 10% increase in crop per plant]

currently underway:
calabrese
garlic

http://linearlegume.blogspot.com/

Signed HW - i'm relatively local and hadn't even heard about this!!

Harlington is lovely, it would be completely ruined with a massive stadium and indistrial units. Fingers crossed the planners see sense.

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There's vegetable growing in the family, but I must be adopted
Happy Gardening!

just signed - concreting over grassland, of which no more can be manufactured when it's gone it's gone, is going to cause this country problems such as flooding so we're told

Yes you have....
Help required

I signed up last time, still getting the odd email update. Seriously hope this development gets turned down Wayne. There's absolutely no need for a football stadium to be 8 miles away from the town it belongs in, can't see how it's any good for the supporters, or your village!

Good luck

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Memory like a seive me - s'why LadyWayne calls me Dory! Of course, I could/should of checked! Thanks SarzWix, both for reminding me, and for signing up.

The stadium is bad enough, but more worrying is the warehousing distribution complex. Amongst other things the local road networks are woefully inadequate to cater for the increased traffic that a development like this would cause. On occasion, a large truck has taken a wrong turn into the village and chaos has ensued as a result.

A similar thing happened to a village up the M1 from us - Brogborough was swalled up by warehousing and alike - Amazon being it's most famous resident.

Thanks for the support people.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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All sorted, Impact would be immense I don't like football much anyway I'm afraid, Obscene wages too. Hope you can fight this off.

good campaign name. if you ask for donations it might sound a bit dodgy..."yeah mate, er, just make th cheque out to cash!"

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Advertising is the rattling of a stick in a swill bucket. George Orwell
Paul

signed and passed onto everyone I know, good luck, I know how stressfull this can be.

Signed. Jeannine and I recently had a planning scare on a smaller scale - a developer tried to build 22 apartments on park land opposite our house. It's the grounds of an historic Augustinian priory but that didn't stop them.

What did stop them was lots of good letters from the local residents, and a comment from the highways agency that the road was not good enough to carry more traffic.

I'd concentrate on issues like that - the viability of transport links etc.

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Resistance is fertile

Just signed Wayne, good luck!

Mandy

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