Was Westergate the real focus of Hubs attention?
Messrs Hall, Dixon and Penfold really must be very naïve if they think we are taken in by their seemingly altruistic protestations about the results of the Ford eco-town saga, especially now the government has said such a development is both unsustainable and undeliverable. Apparently they cannot even accept that we all already know the real reason why they invented the Ford Enterprise Hub concept, but one has only to look at the website of the Villages Action Group to see where this all started. It says: “The Villages Action Group (VAG) was originally formed to fight proposals for large-scale development of greenfield sites around the village of Westergate in 2003 that were being promoted as part of the West Sussex Structure Plan.” In April 2003 a member of the VAG said Ford was a sensible alternative, and in May 2003 the VAG set up a committee with the objective of ensuring the development took place on a brownfield site, such as Ford Airfield. Subsequently, under the headline Anti-h
