2 responses from Mr Hal Bagot, Levens Hall Estate
1. Mr Hal Bagot, Levens Hall Estate : 12 Aug 2011 16:50:00
Settlement (e.g., Natland)
A590 corridor and M6 Junction 36
Site reference number (e.g., RN298#)
EN56#
Please indicate below whether you support, support in part or oppose the suggestion that this site be included in the Land Allocations document.
Oppose
Please explain your reasons/add your comments below
1. This proposal would totally desecrate the approach to the Lake District from the M6.
2. It is wholly out of scale with the landscape, and takes no account whatever of natural features or existing infrastructure and homes.
3. In particular, the area shown takes in a part of Levens Park. This is Grade 1 Listed historic parkland on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, originally planted in the 1690's where many ancient trees survive. Development of any kind, including the A590 itself when it was built in the early 1970's, has been successfully kept out of this land for many years, and should not be considered now.
Please indicate whether you support, support in part or oppose a reduction in the time span of the Land Allocations document
Oppose
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We are now in 2011 and doubtless the process will not provide housing until after Public Enquiries, and only then will sites be developed and cannot happen all at once. I favour keeping the existing 2025 scale - its only 14 years away now.
Please indicate which of the options for the future housing and employment land needs of small villages, hamlets and open countryside you would support.
Option A - Allocating sites for houses and employment in the Land Allocations document
Please explain your reasons/add your comments below
SLDC should not change horses in mid exercise.
2. Mr Hal Bagot, Levens Hall Estate : 12 Aug 2011 17:17:00
Settlement (e.g., Natland)
Sedgwick and Brettargh Holt
Site reference number (e.g., RN298#)
E50#
Please indicate below whether you support, support in part or oppose the suggestion that this site be included in the Land Allocations document.
Oppose
Please explain your reasons/add your comments below
1.This land is open farmland interspersed with small groups of dwellings. It is not connected to any large scale development such as a village in the area, and for this reason should be opposed.
2.The site is very close to Levens Park, a Grade 1 Listed parkland on English Heritage's Register of Parks and Gardens. Any development close to such a beautiful area should be resisted.
3. Access to such a site from the A591 would be very difficult, and Force Lane could not take the enormous increase in traffic which would be generated.
Please indicate whether you support, support in part or oppose a reduction in the time span of the Land Allocations document
Oppose
Please explain your reasons/add your comments below
Given previously.
Please indicate which of the options for the future housing and employment land needs of small villages, hamlets and open countryside you would support.
Option A - Allocating sites for houses and employment in the Land Allocations document
Please explain your reasons/add your comments below
Given previously.
