Response from Mrs. Kathleen Miller (Individual)
1. Mrs. Kathleen Miller (Individual) : 24 Apr 2012 09:37:00
Policy/Site No.
LA1.3 Housing Allocations - RN684 SWM SWARTHMOOR ADJACENT TO KINGSLEY AVENUE
2.1 Do you consider that the South Lakeland District Council Land Allocations DPD is sound?
No
2.3 Please give details of the change(s) you consider necessary to make the South Lakeland District Council Land Allocations DPD sound, having regard to the test you have identified at question 2.2 above.
It would be helpful if you could state your proposed change to the DPD and the reasons why you think it is necessary.
Contrary to all the information in Council Publications I can find no means at all of protesting against the proposed development of houses at Kingsley Avenue. Therefore I resort to this email.
My protest is against the apparent use of Rufus Lane as an access to the proposed new development. As it stands the amount of car-parking at the junction with Kingsley Avenue and Rufus Lane is an accident waiting to happen. Cars parked on the pavement on either side of the road would force anyone with a push-chair, pram or wheelchair, off the pavement and around the parked vehicle. As I have already said AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN.
Also, the difficulty for vehicles accessing the main road from Rufus Lane has to be experienced to be understood.
I would therefore ask the following questions.
a) HAS ANY COUNCILLOR FROM SOUTH LAKELAND SEEN THE PARKING SITUATION AT THIS PROPOSED SITE?
b) IS ANY COUNCILLOR FROM SOUTH LAKELAND INTERESTED IN SEEING THIS PROPOSED SITE?
c) WOULD ANY COUNCILLOR FROM SOUTH LAKELAND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INTO AN AREA WHERE THESE DIFFICULTIES ARE PREVALENT?
d) IS ANY COUNCILLOR FROM SOUTH LAKELAND PREPARED TO ANSWER FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT ACCIDENT THAT IS WAITING TO HAPPEN?
On another note. I believe that the number of proposed dwellings exceeds the allowance for the number of houses in a cul-de-sac and exceeds it by a large margin.
I am prepared to look further into this if necessary. HAS ANY SOUTH LAKELAND DISTRICT COUNCILLOR EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT?
