Response from Mr Simon Just (Individual)
1. Mr Simon Just (Individual) : 18 Sep 2012 16:55:00
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The council response completely ignores serious resident concerns not just about flooding on the proposed sites but the additional knock-on effects to existing flood-relief schemes. Notably, StockBeck. The council response does not reflect either other issues that have been highlighted in previous responses and is therefore grossly inaccurate.
R121M will increase the water run-off rate to a scheme which can already reach capacity quite quickly.
No flood assessment risk has been undertaken in this regard.
In addition, R121M still holds an environment habitat for Great Crested Newts. These are a protected species. The council have ignored this in their spreadsheet assessments of the site.
The site access is proposed on a main road A684. No traffic assessment PRIOR to submission of the site was undertaken, none has been properly undertaken since.
In view of just these problems, it would be wise for SLDC to reassess all the previous responses from residents and actually report the truth to the inspector. As the spreadsheet content exists at present that is clearly not the case.
My family and I will maintain our objection to R121M's inclusion within the plans. It is in both resident and council interests for the content of the submissions to properly include detail about each site not just a "cut and paste" exercise from previous documentation.
