Local plan scoping consultation

Comment

Representation ID: 5058

Received: 27/08/2026

Respondent: Thomas Wardle

I am writing to strongly object to any further development in Haslington.

Enough is enough. More houses will completely ruin what’s left of this village. Haslington is already being strangled by development and we cannot take any more.

The infrastructure here is already failing:
- Road's: They’re gridlocked at peak times already. More homes = more cars = total chaos on narrow village roads that were never built for this volume. There are already hour long queues in a morning.
- Schools & GP: Already full and overstretched. Adding hundreds more families with nowhere for them to go will collapse what little we have left. It’s already impossible to get a doctors appointment as it is.
- Drainage & Services: Flooding and sewage issues are already a problem. The system cannot cope with more strain.

Haslington does not have the structure to support more people. Pushing more housing here won’t “help” — it will destroy the community, wreck the village character, and leave existing residents with worse traffic, worse services, and zero quality of life.

We are not Crewe. We are a village, and if you allow any more development you will ruin it permanently. There is no justification for it.

Please reject any further plans for Haslington.