Great Harwood Save Our Field

We are very concerned that the council want to sell our community field to a large developer and build up to 250 houses. Great Harwood does not need 250 more houses. We already have new houses at Mill Gardens which have not sold.

Great Harwoods infrastructure cannot support another 250 houses; there is not a local housing need for further developments.

The schools would need considerable additional investment, some school classrooms are already filled to the maximum.

Medical and dental facilities are also under pressure, appointments are consistently difficult to book with the local doctors, and our local health center is not an effective service.

Building 250 additional homes in Great Harwood is over development and will create an increase in traffic, noise, crime, continuing drainage/sewage problems, over usage of public amenities and loss of the field amenity alongvwith the loss of all the habitats!

There are other developments recently built in Great Harwood and the surrounding area that are unsold and struggling to sell, employment difficulties are already existing in Great Harwood and an increase in population by approx 700-1000 residents will put a huge strain on our community and overcrowding on our historical market town.

LPF will be developed first and the remainder left derilict (Cherry picking).

The erection of additional housing on our already overdeveloped town, with overstretched local services, is not needed and does not benefit or is in the best interests of existing residents of Great Harwood Town.