Residents protest over proposed development in Albrighton.

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A peaceful protest was held outside a consultation for a huge proposed residential development in Albrighton. Residents say it will massively effect the village due to the scale of it.

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00:00 We're here in Albrighton outside the Red House to present a peaceful protest against a proposal

00:10 by Barningdale Homes to build up to 800 homes on our Greenbelt. We've formed the Albrighton

00:19 Village Action Group as a voice of Albrighton and we are opposed to this proposal for the

00:28 main reason being it's in the Greenbelt which is a protected area. It is a huge disproportionate

00:33 proposal outside of our Shropshire Local Plan for allocated housing which we've already

00:38 met. We've got a development at the moment that has around 300 houses, we've got another

00:44 200 odd houses to be developed over the next five years so it's unnecessary in Albrighton.

00:53 The proposal has a plan for secondary school, supermarkets, drop and ride, all of these

01:02 things are pie in the sky really and that's what we're here to demonstrate against.

01:07 The village stays village! The village stays village!

01:26 800, like you said, they've already had a number of houses being built and on the way

01:31 anyway, another 800, that's a big number isn't it? That's a huge number. So my name's Deepika

01:37 Price and today as you can see a lot of people are curious about 800 houses in Albrighton

01:46 and that would be 62% of the proportion of what we have already so that's a huge increase.

01:56 The traffic will not be able to cope with it, the infrastructure, the GP practice, the

02:03 doctors, the pharmacy, I mean we're just not going to be able to cope with it. This is

02:07 why there are so many people behind us here really angry, very upset and they've all been

02:14 signing the petition and we've collected 2,600 petitions already within two and a half weeks.

02:22 It's a lot of anger, people are very, very upset about it. So here we are, a peaceful

02:28 protest to represent the people of Albrighton and the surrounding villages. And we have

02:35 the support of the MP, Mark Richard and Nigel Lovely, the overwhelming support is there

02:45 against this pleasure.

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