Oakhurst resident, Steph Exell, appeared on the Graham Mack breakfast show this morning and rebutted comments made by Dale Heenan * - where were the ward councillors from Priory Vale? - about the approval of the Tadpole Farm development on 11th September 2012.
He believes that Swindon is excellent at meeting school place demand. However, parents in Oakhurst may not agree with him. Dale Heenan spouts out figures without backing them up with fact. Let's get down to facts campaigner, Kareen Boyd, has demonstrated that the education figures do not add up.
When it came to the question about Oakhurst Way, he was totally unable to clarify how much money would be spent defending the local road from becoming nothing more than a major rat-run.
There were some glib comments about flooding and solving the problem by building more houses on boggy land.
Objective facts carry far more weight than vacuous blather so why do politicians use one rather than the other?
* Cabinet member for Strategic Planning and Sustainability
