Response from Mr A White (Individual)
1. Mr A White (Individual) : 10 Jul 2008 09:40:00
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.
am writing with reference to the development plans for Heversham & Leasgill. Whilst I agree that there could be a need for affordable housing,I find that the plan is totally out of keeping with the village as it is now. I also wonder whether the architects of the plan have studied the situation as a whole & have involved themselves fully in joined-up thinking.
My reasons for disagreeing with the development are as follows:- Apart from any new affordable housing,why do we need more houses as those which are on the market now are not selling. Also,some properties which have been on the market have been withdrawn as they have not sold!! Who are these people that you wish to house here & where are they coming from? This alone seems to me to dispell the theory that we need more houses.
As a resident in Woodhouse Lane since 1975,I think that I have spent enough time here to comment sensibly on the situaton. To build on site 4 on your map with the entrance on Woodhouse Lane is ludicrous as the road is only one car wide. To have a road exiting on to it would not only be impractical but highly dangerous,as any resident will tell you. Residents have to exercise extreme care when leaving their drives. Also,in the 1970s to get from M6 {J36} to the Barrow road at Levens House was via Milnthorpe. Needless to say,some motorists looking at a map discovered that Woodhouse Lane was a short cut. More traffic from new houses would revert to that increase in traffic. Surely the scheme contavines the "Health & Safety" act. It certainly contravines common sense.
Site 3B would have similar problems as the old A6 is narrow,& curved,also not forgetting that buses use the road which is very busy now at certain times of the day. It would be suicide to exit on to the A6 itself. Apart from that,the land is frquently flooded.
So where are all these people going to work,as there are no more jobs around here? Where exactly are they coming from? If they are going to work here,which firms are going to relocate here? Please give me a list. Or are they going to be working away,which means more travelling---therefore expense with the cost of fuel not to mention carbon footprints!!?
How about the infrastructure--drains,roads? It`s difficult enough parking in Milnthorpe now! What about doctors,dentists? And schools,which I believe are full. More people,yet they are closing post offices & wards in the hospital!
I look forward to answers to my questions as it seems to me that the plan has not been fully thought through. I also wonder whether those formulating it have really studied the area,or have even been there at all