Response from MR JEREMY FISH (Individual)
1. MR JEREMY FISH (Individual) : 11 Sep 2011 17:22:00
Settlement (e.g., Natland)
Kirkby-in-Furness
Site reference number (e.g., RN298#)
RN13
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
This would be a significant expansion of a rural hamlet within the village of Kirkby, in area about a third again of the most densely housed section of Upper Beckside aloong the narrow road down from the Mill and the right angle turn to Ulverston. It is a notorious bottle neck for traffice, where collisions between vehicles occur from time to time. Adding houses would also add vehicular traffic turning onto the road and along the road into the narrows. Pedestrians have to share the road with vehicles where the short stretches of pavement end. Vehicles parked on the pavement force pedestrians into the road. Extra cars of additional residents and their visitors will exacerbate these problems. The road surface will deteriorate more quickly, with no additoinal resources for the Highway authority to maintain it. In the other direction, the increased vehicular traffic will increase the hazards for pedestrians and cyclists on the road to the A595 at Four lanes End, who include children ging to primary and secondary schools (in the dark ion winter) and people, including children, going to and from the playing fields, Church, shop/Post Office and pub.
The road through Beckside becomes a fast flowing stream, making Beckside live up to its name, in heavy rain. Surface water run off will increase as green field is covered by Tarmac and concrete, for which the storm drains may not cope after a few years lack of maintenance.
The proposed development will put added strain on the drains and other services, which would need upgrading at considerable disruption to residents. The building work itself would be highly disruptive to residents daily lives with heavy traffic associated with the building works, noise and dirt carried onto the road.
The Cottage at the end of our row, and the detached garage belonging to our house beyond it, flood in exceptionally heavy rain when the higher ground can absorb no more water. A development of housing uphill of these premises will have an unknown effect on this problem.
The proposed development will diminish the amenity of our hamlet, which retains an open aspect onto grazing land on the undeveloped side of the road. It would give the hamlet a feeling of enclosure and suburbanisation.
Please indicate whether you support, support in part or oppose a reduction in the time span of the Land Allocations document
No view
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
Allocating sites after a thorough consultation and in accordance with transparent criteria is a more democratic and accountable way than the alternative. Allowing developers and 'communities' to bring forward proposals is in effect an invitation for small interest groups and business interests to impose their plans on the majority, with less overall planning anmd therefore less accountability.
