The plan for the LSA seems to be to change it from a Land Settlement Association into a Leisure Site Amenity for the village (and beyond). Planning permission in the village is granted for houses on very small plots, crowded together (the Moorefield development being a prime example) and while the residents rejoice in their low maintenance gardens, they realise that for mental and physical health reasons, they need access to green spaces: hence the bizarre situation of having allotments in a village (whilst ex-council house gardens are being sold off and a house shoehorned into them). Meanwhile restrictions are placed on the LSA to ensure that any external person coming onto the roads is able to enjoy vistas. The emphasis is to afford outsiders nice views by dictating to the LSA residents what they can and cannot do to their properties.

The LSA is not open countryside. It is a settlement of over 60 houses and several businesses with a fair amount of traffic negotiating a single track road.

Perhaps planners will encourage new developments to have more green space within them, rather than depending on the LSA as their recreational facility (especially now that Granta Park access has been stopped).

I noted the photograph regarding the completion/presentation of the Neighbourhood Plan in the March edition of our parish magazine, showed councillors but tellingly there was no resident of the LSA in it.

I trust that Tony Orgee's comment at the last Parish Council meeting - that it was agreed that only people who live within the NP area will be able to vote on it - will be adhered to.