Harriett Baldwin, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire will speak at the public meeting in support of the campaign. Also on the panel are Cllr Phil Grove, Leader of Malvern Hills District Council, Cllr David Hughes, Portfolio Holder for Housing on MHDC, Paul Swinburn, Chair of the SaEV campaign and Richard Burt, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate.
Harriett Baldwin said, "I have been working hard to help the campaign fight off plans to build a town the size of Pershore on the fields between Worcester and Elgar's birthplace museum. I invited Eric Pickles MP, Conservative Party Chairman to Malvern in May and he outlined to our councillors that a Conservative Government would abolish the Regional Spatial Strategy. Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing Minister visited Lower Broadheath in May to listen to the campaign group's concerns and outline the Conservative's approach to housing. I have organised meetings between the three South Worcestershire Council leaders to urge a united approach. I also made a speech to the Malvern Hills Conservative Group of councillors, urging them to explore every legal way to stall and resist government pressure to build 24,500 homes in South Worcestershire.
I welcome the decision the three councils have made to request an extension to help them further their technical analysis. With a General Election due by next June at the latest, there is a chance that local people will have a chance to vote for an alternative to the government's top-down, Stalinist approach to housing numbers.