Thomas argues that what the council is proposing will make people homeless. "You don't decommission a village so callously," she says. "You decommission a nuclear power plant or an old factory." She would like to see a similar compensation scheme introduced to the one devised by Room for the River. "If there was a [council] offer of compulsory purchase at market value or above, there would be people here who would go for that," she says.
