Campaigners speak out against Aldi Horndean plans

Havant Road And Horndean resident campigners Marcella Payne and Rachel Temple, against Aldi Horndean being built.   Footage by Noni Needs/LDRS

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00:00To have a large sort of national supermarket be proposed opposite two 1810 cottages was quite

00:10shocking. We sort of couldn't quite believe it was going to happen and then when we did attend

00:15the parish council meetings and found that we attended the consultation process and it felt

00:23very much like we were not being listened to at all as a community. That was also quite shocking,

00:29that consultation process it felt like it had already been decided, which again was quite a shock.

00:38We understand that people need local supermarkets, we haven't got anything against local supermarkets,

00:44we totally understand that, but there's a right place for them and the amount of traffic

00:48and the deliveries that this is going to entail on a village road seems completely inappropriate.

00:56There are numerous concerns but primarily it's the traffic, it's going to be the extra traffic

01:01for building the building in the first place. Our roads aren't widen, our pavements aren't wide enough

01:06for us to walk down safely as it is. With the proposed site they're not prepared to put in a pedestrian

01:15crossing because they feel it's the road, there's a very busy road is safe for pedestrians to cross.

01:19They're saying that most of the footfall will be by a bus, which at the moment needs one an hour.

01:26You're going to have headlights that are going to be streaming into the neighbours' front windows.

01:34They want to do four deliveries a day which is from half past six to half past ten at night.

01:40The area is a flood plain. We have flooding in Haven Road already, which isn't being dealt with by Hampton County Council.

01:50It's officially a flood risk. It's already a flood risk. Four houses at the end have already been flooded

01:55five times in eleven years. They want to put an aquafil in, which means that the water will be collected underground

02:05but then any access will be released into the ditch, which is our drinking water for this whole area.

02:12So that means that any runoff from roofs, any plastic, any petrol from the car park or any spillages from vehicles

02:21will go into the water and then into the aquafil, which will then in turn go into the ditch.

02:27We've had opposals from objections from the Fire Authority, the Environment Agency, Hampshire Highways and Portsmouth Water.

02:40The Fire Authority are concerned that if there's an incident, because sometimes you don't just use water for an incident,

02:46you can use other chemicals like foam, they can't guarantee that that will not go into the ditch.

02:51The ditch?