Object
Preferred Site Allocations 2018
Representation ID: 18116
Received: 09/03/2018
Respondent: Mr Greald Pearse
1) The site has very poor site lines and ingress & egress of the site is dangerous on this narrow busy road.
2) The topology of the site has such a sharp slope on it a development would tower over the adjacent gardens, be over bearing, block light and destroy all privacy on the neighboring properties
This site has always been a pleasant wooded area, bustling with wild life and of great benefit to all. Several years ago, the landowner, cut down all the mature English trees and shrub land and drove all the wildlife away. In Nov '17, the landowner felled a very large healthy Oak tree, which had a girth of approx. 5 ft, and there was no notification to any resident in the area. The trunk and the tree remnants still lie on the site.
Having destroyed the natural environment of this once pleasant green field site, the landowners now seek planning permission, despite being refused twice in the past, and also having lost a government planning appeal in 2015.
This site in Mascalls Lane is NOT-appropriate for development due to:
1) The site lines for access to the site are on a bend and have very poor visibility. Mascalls Lane is a very busy road and having a site entrance with poor site lines on a busy road will lead to many traffic issues and accidents.
2) The topology of the site has such an incline on it, that the level of the site which backs onto our house is aprox 5 feet above our ground level. As the site rises towards Mascalls Lane the land level increases dramatically, such that the Mascalls Lane road is higher than our ground floor ceiling.
With development of this site, the development of houses would be overbearing on properties in The Dell and would overlook them and put them in shade and limit their natural light on this south facing site.
We would have houses towering above us and looking down into our back gardens and take away all our privacy that we currently enjoy.
The development of this small site would dramatically destroy the amenity we currently enjoy and from which the local community have benefited from for the past 30 years.
I believe this site should be taken out of the Local Plan, and be kept as Green Belt and be allowed to return to its previous use as a wooded area for wildlife. It would also leave Mascall Lane to be kept as a safe road with a pleasant view leading into Warley for the benefit of the whole community.