Local Development Framework Consultation

Land adjacent to A6, South of Kendal

E4M

Oppose

I strongly object to this proposal.
I am sure that development has been proposed on this site before, considered in some detail and found to be unsuitable?
It is an attractive relatively unspoilt rural gateway to the town.
Any development at all on this site would seriously diminish the landscape setting of Kendal.

Support in part

Option B - Communities and/or developers bringing forward sites for housing and employment for consideration under relevant Core Strategy policies, through neighbourhood plans and/or other local initiatives

Land at end of Highcote Lane and Leighton Drive, Slackhead

RN 233

Oppose

I strongly oppose this additional development on top of the hill at Slackhead. It adjoins the seminatural woodland on the limestone escarpment of Beetham fell.

The existing development at Slackhead is a well known example of bad 1960's planning - an isolated conspicuous development of suburban housing, consisting of large expensive houses totally unrelated to the local, traditional dispersed village settlement, built in previously unspoilt and well loved countryside. It has taken over 40 years for this development to tone down and become partly obscured by woodland. It was one of the developments that hastened the designation of the Arnside Silverdaale AONB to try and prevent further desecration!

Arnside, Station Yard

MN 32

Support in part

The derelict station yard between the old railway and the B578 road is suitable for well designed carparking (mainly for railway users), small scale housing (possibly a small terrace)and workshops for local use.

The coastal frontage on the old railway line alongside the Old Station (AONB office)should remain as green public open space - any development would be extremely damaging to the landscape and environment of the AONB.

South Lakeland District Council should protect all remaining undeveloped/unspoilt coastal land and support the National trust's Enterprise Neptune.

Support in part

Future uncertainty due to: climate change, peak oil, resource depletion and finacial turmoil.

Option B - Communities and/or developers bringing forward sites for housing and employment for consideration under relevant Core Strategy policies, through neighbourhood plans and/or other local initiatives

There should be a presumption against development (particularly speculative development) unless a strong case can be made that this is essential for local use and widely supported.

Arnside