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We've found that the vast majority of Ashtead residents are overwhelmingly supportive of SSAFA, Headley Court, the Armed Forces and our campaign. The 90 or so objectors, and their attitudes, do not represent most Ashtead residents from everything we've seen. Please, in thanks to all those people, bear that in mind when posting!

Thank you to everyone who's helped achieve this wonderful result. We've known from the outset that the concerns raised were misplaced. SSAFA and the families concerned will now have the chance to prove that. We know they'll be more than equal to the task.

Oh, and thanks for all the fish

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Name: Nick
From: Newcastle
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I have recently made this film about the WW2 Guinea Pig Club that helped badly burnt and disfigured RAF airmen recover. The town of East Grinstead help the recuperation of these brave men by inviting them into their homes and pubs and making them feeling them welcome. Please search on youtube -
'guinea pig club raf'
they are a real inspiration! East Grinstead became known as 'The town that did not stare' , will Ashstead become known as 'The town that did not care'?

Good luck in your new home, GET WELL SOON to all injured service personnel and KEEP YOUR CHINS UP!

Millions support you!

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: Ann
From: East Midlands

There doesn't appear to be one substantial, reasoned argument against this facility which is why I simply can not see this from the residents point of view as has been suggested.
Rightly or wrongly, "our boys and girls" have been sent to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. They face not only physical but psychological injury while fighting for freedom - something I always thought was fundamental in the make up in the British Isles.
Having done their duty, they return and (despite the best efforts of many medical staff) they, and their families do not receive the care they urgently and desperately require.
It is things like this which make me totally despair of this country and the people who inhabit it with me.
Good luck with the planning application and God Bless each and every service personnel and their families who pay such a high price.

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: PartTimePongo
From: Arrse

Thank you Lisa, and it's not taken the wrong way. However..... "You can't blame them for wanting to maintain a quiet & tranquil neighbourhood."

Have you been told by word or letter that the residents should expect otherwise?

How much traffic and additional noise have you been told to expect?

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: JC
From: Eastbourne
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My 'time' was done at East Grinstead in the burns unit and later in rehab - '91 and on.

What sort of country are we now living in? What happened to our values and standards?

Those patients at HC and their families, they who also serve.

Ashtead residents are not fit to lick their boots.

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: Cpl J Browning
From: Plymouth
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These local residents make me sick. I was both an inpatient and an outpatient at DSMRC Headley Court and the rehabilitation I received there was invaluable to my healing process, including my family visiting me. This is a facility that not only deserves support but larger grounds too.

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: Richard Cocks
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I spent 10 enjoyable years in the Army and found that the most important thing to a service man or woman is the love and support of their families. This is never more so when you are either posted aboard or sent on operational tours. Just knowing that your family are thinking of you is a great comfort. I was lucky enough not to experience injury during my service but many service personal are not so fortunate. When this happens the support of their families are paramount. families of service personal needs these facilities to add the recovery process of the injured person and give the families a place to call home while going through such a difficult time. Our armed forces give so much for our country & as such, the people who live here safe in the knowledge that there are people willing to give their lives to protect our freedom, should give a little something back and allow the building to be used by SSAFA

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: Lisa Miller
From: Ashtead
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Please don't take this the wrong way but the people who reside in Grays Lane & the surrounding areas have paid a premium to live where they do. You can't blame them for wanting to maintain a quiet & tranquil neighbourhood. Some of your comments are a little harsh & unfair to these people who have had to deal with a lot of backlash over this. I'm sure they have nothing against your organisation personally & no doubt some of the elder residents have most probably served in the forces. Please try & see it from their point of view.

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: Debbie
From: Manchester
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Further to my previous comment. I have been to read the planning application and also the objections. After reading the comments i was compeled to right in support of the Planning Application and I hope that someone with a bit of sense understands the can of worm that has been opened by the selfish residence on and around Grays Lane. I also asked if these same people objected to 36 being used as a pre school previously as i noticed that one against the decision stated that people would be sitting in the gardens and I also asked were these same children taken to and from said school by horse and carriage as much was being made about the roads being bridal lanes. I have even been driven to the point that I forwarded the link to my father and asked him to pass it around his Local British Legion.

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: Mike Neal
From: Manchester
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I served for 22 years in the RAOC alongside other brave men of the EOD operators and no one who has not taken the "long walk" will have no idea how much courage is required to dismatle an inprovised unexploded device.

God bless you Sir! Saluting you now!

Added: July 28, 2007

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Name: Pat Martin
From: Norfolk
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As ex RAF with first hand knowledge and experience (not as a patient) of the fine work done at Headley Court, I find the objections to this badly needed SSAFA initiative outrageous to say the least. The objections put forward bear no weight whatsoever and I trust that the planning decision makers on Wednesday will be able to focus on this.
It is quite obvious that the majority of Ashtead residents are firmly behind this project and would be proud to be associated with such a worthwhile venture. However, do the objectors realise just how much bad feeling they have manifest upon themselves, not just here in the UK, but globally?
It is not too late for those objectors to withdraw and save face. If you did you would show dignity and hold your heads high in the knowledge that you were firmly behind our Armed Forces and their families in time of need.
I would like to express my thanks to all who are fighting for what is right in this cause, so well done the Blue Team, those in the background and all the supporters, for your amazing efforts. I am immensely proud of you all - well done.

Added: July 28, 2007

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