Response from Mrs Alice Pell (Individual)
1. Mrs Alice Pell (Individual) : 16 Jul 2017 22:28:00
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Silverdale - part of S50
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The proposal for new builds off St. John's Avenue would cause a very busy junction onto and off Emesgate Lane. Not only would this make it difficult for residents to the avenue exiting and entering the road but at peak times of day around school opening and closing time this would make an extremely busy if not dangerous period for families crossing the roads between construction lorries and regular daily traffic of cars, buses and delivery lorries that need to come early in the morning. There are no designated 'safe' pedestrian crossing areas on Emesgate Lane near the school at all neither is there a 'road crossing patrol person' for the school or on St. John's Avenue so for pedestrians this build up of heavy construction traffic would increase the risk to parents safely crossing the road with small children.
The local roads entering and exiting the village of Silverdale are narrow and single carriageway in any direction and to compete with long building supply lorries would cause difficulty for local road users let alone getting the local village bus which needs frequent access to the village.
Not only is the thought of having more traffic on the immediate road of St. John's Avenue cause for concern for during proposed building periods but also for in the future. The concern for the future would be more traffic on St. John's Avenue, and ultimately round the village which at the best of times can be tricky to navigate round increasing numbers of cars etc.
What about the emergency access to the village on its local roads if it were needed into/out of St. John's Avenue as well as large vehicles entering and exiting the construction site? Would this be compromised?
As the document states, this "Is" an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, so how can filling the local environment with loud building and construction worksites and extra heavy plant vehicles contribute to this AONB recognition?
Have local wildlife inhabitants been considered in this proposal? There have been regular sightings of 'Greater Spotted Woodpeckers and also the Green wood pecker have been sighted on the road and in gardens. Owls are heard at night time in the surrounding trees in the gardens. Also a family of small brown deer are frequent visitors up the avenue and the worry that they would be scared off and worried by any construction work. It would be sad for the younger children of primary school age growing up in the immediate area not to have seen that said wildlife if machinery and new land development drove them all away.
I hope you will read and take these views into consideration.
