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The land at Priests Lane should be removed from the Local Development Plan and maintained as an open urban space.

Transport assessment subjective, inaccurate, flawed. Increased traffic usage would impact dangerously upon the Lane.
The proposed Priests Lane access does not comply with national guidelines and would be very dangerous.
Pollution would increase in an already over-polluted area. Priests Lane already does not comply with national
requirements regarding widths and markings of both the roadway and pavements (which are not provided on both sides of the road).
The plan omits any reference to additional infrastructure, educational and health facilities.
The Plan contradicts every General Development Criteria laid down by the Council in its own Policy 6.3.
The sites at Priests Lane lie in a flood zone and no mitigating reference is included in the Plan other than the problem will be addressed.
This corresponds with every other reference to the need for mitigation of a problem.
The Council agrees access to the sites is a serious problem but has swept that aside.
The sites have been rejected on several occasions previously and there has been no change in the nature of the sites other than traffic usage of the Lane has increased considerably.
Finally, despite dozens/hundreds of responses, technical and otherwise, the Council has never responded directly to these local resident concerns, nor has it explained the continued inclusion of these sites and the inconsistent removal of other sites.