Letter to the Editors—Concerned about unchecked development in Haldimand

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Welcome to Haldimand County where you can purchase a new home in Hagersville next to an active quarry, where you are subjected to noise, vibration, dust, and flyrock, or you can live around a steel plant and oil refinery where you are exposed to noise, coal dust, vibrations, and air pollution. 

You will not be able to complain though because you have been notified on the purchase agreement you signed with a warning clause registered on title. The second purchaser will not find out about it until their lawyer does a title search which may be too late. 

You could also purchase property surrounded by farmland only to have Suit-Kote, an asphalt storage company, purchase farmland property across the road from your home and place massive storage tanks on site where you can experience foul odour and contaminants.

Is this the best Haldimand has to offer?

Shelley Ann Bentley,

Selkirk