Response from Mr & Mrs David John & Fiona Batten-Hill (Individual)
1. Mr & Mrs David John & Fiona Batten-Hill (Individual) : 10 Feb 2011 21:20:00
Settlement
Burneside
Map Number
6 Burneside
Housing
Oppose
Employment
Oppose
Retail
Oppose
Community uses
Support in part
Open space
Support
Notes on the map that has been provided
I notice among your documentation, the use of the word 'excellence'. I fail to see anything excellent about the outcome of the proposed allocation of land and building works in and around Burneside. In the real world, we would see the overloading of Burneside's inadequate sewerage system, an equal, though far more immediately hazardous overloading of the village's road network, and a significant risk of assassinating the village's character. Moreover, the likelihood of distorting the village's employment/population ratio is particularly high.
Historically, Burneside and Cropper's represents a marriage. Not necessarily a marriage made in heaven but the spouses are clearly mutually dependent. We're a huge number of new families to be housed in Burneside, the only way in which employability could be sustained would be a massive expansion in Cropper's staff requirement. Under the current circustances - in any circumstances for that matter - this seems highly unlikely to happen. An influx of small businesses would do little more than fragment the area's socio-economic structure.
In the end analysis, my wife and I feel that the proposals offered are ill-conceived and more than a little short sighted. We oppose them, markedly and strongly.
