In response to your article whereby Nescot have suggested that we, the local community, back their application or risk having a supermarket, I would urge the college to put their money where their mouth is and sell the land unconditionally.

A supermarket would be highly unlikely to get planning permission on that site, and would be equally as offensive to the village of Ewell as the current plans are, but it would have far less of an impact on schools, hospitals, doctors etc than 91 homes and a 120 bed care facility.

We are also threatened in the same article that not backing the plans will result in a ‘very shaky future for the college’ and asked ‘is this what the people of Epsom and Ewell want?’

The management of Nescot, or lack of it given that parts of the college estate are, we are told, unfit for purpose, is not the responsibility of the local community otherwise we would get paid handsomely for doing so.

The ability to send children to a local school, to get a doctor or dentist, to be able to move freely around the area without severe traffic congestion are of vital importance. These seem to be of little interest to the corporations of Nescot and the Goodman Group.

Had any offer from a supermarket group exceeded what they stand to make from these plans are we to believe Nescot would, or have, turned them down?

Ms Mann mentions that they have communicated with locals to find a suitable solution. Since the overwhelming response from the local community has been that these plans are not wanted will Nescot be true to their word, withdraw them and sell the land unconditionally.

Or was that statement an arrogant and childish attempt at trying to bully the people of Epsom and Ewell? Time will tell.

Mr K. Miller; Ewell

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