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WITH the Churston Golf Club housing development in mind, I have been looking at the population statistics for Torbay and very interesting reading it makes.
The important statistic in this regard is the rate at which the population is expected to grow — which for Torbay is a figure of 1,300 people a year, a rate which is expected to continue for the next 25 years.
Now, as much as you may hate the idea of the population expanding by that amount, short of building barricades, there is not much we can do as individuals.
The fact is, we are going to have to find houses for all these extra people to live in.

Another statistic which is worth looking at is the spread of population across the Bay.
Almost 50 per cent of the 130,000 living in the Bay live in the Torquay area. In the Paignton area the figure is just over 37 per cent.
That just leaves Brixham and its environs and, wait for it, only 13.5 per cent of the population live on that side of the Bay.
Somehow, we are going to have to find houses for another 32,500 people and it doesn't take a genius to work out that the only place they can go is the Brixham area.
You only need to look at a map to work that one out, it's the only part of the Bay with any space.
In any case, isn't it time that Brixham, Churston, Galmpton, etc. took their fair share of the increasing population, there's hardly room for any more in Torquay and Paignton is not much better off and why should we take the brunt?
Coming back to the Churston Golf Club situation, the plan is to build anything up to 100 houses on that site (depending on who you believe).
That's not going to make much of a dent in the requirement for houses in that area.
If I were a member of the RAGS, I would be pushing to make sure that as much of the golf course as possible is preserved.
It's not likely to be too long before that is the only green space left in the area.
WENDY HOLDEN, St Lukes Road South, Torquay
Reference: Heral Express Friday 3 September 2010