The proposed plan to build houses on our beautiful green belt land

This is the comment I made on the Kent Messenger, I wanted to put it up on my blog as well for more people to see. The plan is to build seven hundred low income housing near Culverstone. So here it is:

I am very dismayed by these developments. Why can't Gravesham council leave what is working and good well alone? The schools are excellent here, the streets are safe, there is only a little speeding traffic and that tends to be from persons who are not local and are just using the Wrotham Road as a cut through from the M20 to the A2. The woods are safe for women and children to walk in, the roads are safe for women to walk alone down. We can see the stars at night because we have beautiful trees and fields and very few street lamps and in most places none at all. This area is a haven. If more housing is created in this area they will destroy beautiful areas of greenbelt land, surely this contravenes the 'supposed' green environmental policies?
Low income housing means what? For whom? At the very least more people means, and particularly a huge influx will destroy village life, destroy schools that are currently not overcrowded or full of problems (can you leave your childrens bikes outside the school fence in your towns? We can at the minute). It will also mean more traffic on the road, an increased risk of speading and therefore dangerous to children, walking pedestrians (of which there are many currently)and to our many wildlife inhabitants like foxes, squirrels, rabbits, badgers. The amount of roadkill will increase phenominally for animals. These are only some of the possible problems.
Why doesn't the council in its regeneration programme of Gravesend 'regenerate' all the old houses that are empty and boarded up and put well made houses to good use and leave our dwindling greenbelt alone.