2 responses from Mr and Mrs Ray and Beryl Holmes (Individual)
1. Mr and Mrs Ray and Beryl Holmes (Individual) : 7 Jul 2008 09:48:00
Please write your comment or explain your reasons for supporting or opposing this part of the Report. You may also wish to refer to the tests of soundess in the glossary of the Preferred Options document before making your comments.
CORE STRATEGY
We understand the need for balance in protecting the environment and character of Kendal when providing housing and jobs for the area during the next 25 years.
The areas that concern us most are the following:
The area south of Lumley Road/Helsington Laithes
The area south of Scroggs Lane
The area marked Shenstone
All these proposed areas may well adversely reflect on the access to Kendal from the south. In the past, local government have stressed the importance of the approach to Kendal in this respect. We hope the following points will be taken into consideration.
Additional housing/commercial enterprise, and associated services, would mean a tremendous increase in traffic where at certain times there is already a build-up on Milnthorpe Road from the bypass. All of these sites will put great strain on existing utilities. There would obviously have to be a great improvement and considerable expansion in this regard.
There is already a question mark as to whether some of the facilities and services at Westmorland General Hospital will be axed! Is there a plan to increase private health care to cover any future expansion? The same problem of additional services will of course will also apply to education.
We consider that there are more suitable sites for expansion on the north side of the town. We realise that to make this possible consideration would have to be given to improving the road network in that area by the County Council.
2. Mr and Mrs Ray and Beryl Holmes (Individual) : 7 Jul 2008 09:54:00
CORE STRATEGY
We understand the need for balance in protecting the environment and character of Kendal when providing housing and jobs for the area during the next 25 years.
The areas that concern us most are the following:
The area south of Lumley Road/Helsington Laithes
The area south of Scroggs Lane
The area marked Shenstone
All these proposed areas may well adversely reflect on the access to Kendal from the south. In the past, local government have stressed the importance of the approach to Kendal in this respect. We hope the following points will be taken into consideration.
Additional housing/commercial enterprise, and associated services, would mean a tremendous increase in traffic where at certain times there is already a build-up on Milnthorpe Road from the bypass. All of these sites will put great strain on existing utilities. There would obviously have to be a great improvement and considerable expansion in this regard.
There is already a question mark as to whether some of the facilities and services at Westmorland General Hospital will be axed! Is there a plan to increase private health care to cover any future expansion? The same problem of additional services will of course will also apply to education.
We consider that there are more suitable sites for expansion on the north side of the town. We realise that to make this possible consideration would have to be given to improving the road network in that area by the County Council.