Save our Countryside: Stop converting Villages into Pseudo-Cities!
Save our Countryside: Stop converting Villages into Pseudo-Cities!
The Issue
Please sign if you believe in protecting our villages.
Everywhere I look, I see a new house popping up – unfortunately, faster than potholes on the roads.
I was raised in a village in Renfrewshire and within the 5 years houses are popping up all around us. For example:
Cala Homes: 41 + 195
David Wilson Homes: 207 + 106
Robertson Homes: 129
It's so bad, they've had to create a whole new village in Bishopton to support the rate of development. But "why make a petition now?" I have watched my friends, family and neighbours fight to stop these developments going through and each time to no avail. They have been fighting to protect our green spaces from more developments. But devastatingly, the council have decided to revoke the Green Belt designation from a field on Auchenlodment Road (Elderslie) and Thriplee Road (Bridge of Weir), and redefined it as ‘white space’ – opening it up to yet more housebuilders.
They are now proposing another 100+ homes on Barochan Road (Houston).
These are sites that locals are prepared to battle for, the councils aren't. If a developer wants to build on a floodplain, why stop them? Instead, they're committed to adding yet more roughcast to our already dwindling countryside. If Crosslee can be absorbed by Houston, why can't they all merge into one concrete countryside.
Whole streets have banded together to battle one such developer who is committed to bullying out homeowners to push through his development. Is that really who we want to entrust our homes to?
What happened to protecting the pollinators? While this is a housing crisis for the birds, bees and all other critters - there are no amenities to support a doubling population. The schools were already overstretched before these developments began, and we've not even touched on the 1 GP Practice who cover Bridge of Weir and Houston area.
I humbly request for the new developments to stop and look how to improve the Green Belts, to protect the quaintness of the villages. Protect what we have because, at the rate the temperatures are soaring and the financial markets are crashing, don’t we all need to encourage some green into the countryside?
I repeat, please sign if you believe in protecting our villages. Help us show the council they too should believe in protecting and preserving our villages and our countryside.
We need all the help we can get. Thank you.
1,772
The Issue
Please sign if you believe in protecting our villages.
Everywhere I look, I see a new house popping up – unfortunately, faster than potholes on the roads.
I was raised in a village in Renfrewshire and within the 5 years houses are popping up all around us. For example:
Cala Homes: 41 + 195
David Wilson Homes: 207 + 106
Robertson Homes: 129
It's so bad, they've had to create a whole new village in Bishopton to support the rate of development. But "why make a petition now?" I have watched my friends, family and neighbours fight to stop these developments going through and each time to no avail. They have been fighting to protect our green spaces from more developments. But devastatingly, the council have decided to revoke the Green Belt designation from a field on Auchenlodment Road (Elderslie) and Thriplee Road (Bridge of Weir), and redefined it as ‘white space’ – opening it up to yet more housebuilders.
They are now proposing another 100+ homes on Barochan Road (Houston).
These are sites that locals are prepared to battle for, the councils aren't. If a developer wants to build on a floodplain, why stop them? Instead, they're committed to adding yet more roughcast to our already dwindling countryside. If Crosslee can be absorbed by Houston, why can't they all merge into one concrete countryside.
Whole streets have banded together to battle one such developer who is committed to bullying out homeowners to push through his development. Is that really who we want to entrust our homes to?
What happened to protecting the pollinators? While this is a housing crisis for the birds, bees and all other critters - there are no amenities to support a doubling population. The schools were already overstretched before these developments began, and we've not even touched on the 1 GP Practice who cover Bridge of Weir and Houston area.
I humbly request for the new developments to stop and look how to improve the Green Belts, to protect the quaintness of the villages. Protect what we have because, at the rate the temperatures are soaring and the financial markets are crashing, don’t we all need to encourage some green into the countryside?
I repeat, please sign if you believe in protecting our villages. Help us show the council they too should believe in protecting and preserving our villages and our countryside.
We need all the help we can get. Thank you.
1,772
Petition created on 22 August 2022