CONCERNED residents have called on local councillors to do all they can to prevent Wellington becoming a concrete jungle.

Two members of the public spoke at Wellington Town Council’s monthly meeting on Monday (June 2) with mounting concerns about the ever-increasing number of housing developments being planned for the area.

Lindsey Stanton and Frank Sherlock both told the council that there was a real danger Wellington would become unrecognisable in the near future and that the current infrastructure would not be able to cope with the building of up to 1,800 homes.

“Wellington has gone from being a lovely market town into a commuter town,” said Lindsey. “There has been building after building and all big housing developments.

“The infrastructure in the town cannot cope – the doctors’ surgeries, there are no dentists, crime is going up and the roads cannot cope, the schools cannot cope and there is frequent flooding now.

“What are these new developments going to bring to the town apart from bringing more problems?”

Lindsey said she had big concerns about “covering over green spaces in concrete.”

“I feel it is a degradation of local democracy,” she added. “The Government has told developers to build wherever they like and don’t take any notice of local people.

“The Government is eroding democracy and creating a dictatorship – enough is enough!”

Mr Sherlock added: “It is now so evident that we are being invaded by a tsunami of prospective housing proposals.

“The developers will come in and build their developments and then ride off into the sunset with their profits. We just haven’t got the services and facilities to cope.”

He called on the town council to do all it could to ensure that future housing developments were sustainable for the town.

The Mayor, Cllr Janet Lloyd, told the speakers: “Councillors have the same views to yourselves.”