Response from Mr & Mrs P W & J M Williamson (Individual)
1. Mr & Mrs P W & J M Williamson (Individual) : 5 Sep 2013 12:51:00
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Dear Sir,
It is with grave concern that I read of the proposed re-classification of land adjoining Gill Banks and the present building site at Union Lane.
My chief objection is that which I have voiced in the past regarding the volume of traffic already threatening Union Lane, plus the additional number of cars and service vehicles generated by another 22 houses. The 48 dwellings with 2 garages or parking spaces each, would pressurise this small lane with an increase of over 1,000% in traffic volume. It will be chaos regardless of the minimal widening that has been done. All this will create further blockage at the mini island at Soutergate and Mill St., the only outlets for the whole of N W Ulverston to the one-way system of the town.
The above will be grossly compounded if the suggested turning of Union Lane into one-way incorporating the 'new estate' and Mowings Ln. were adopted. This would mean a slower response time for emergency vehicles such as fire engines and ambulances. It may be thought that it is only minutes in difference and therefore negligible My experience of Union Lane is very different. Four years ago my wife had a stroke that nearly killed her. The ambulance men were there in six minutes A car was left sticking out in front of a garage, only a few inches more than it should have been. Was the time lost in carrying her in a chair that extra distance enough to cause the brain damage that afflicted her from then on/. The massive amount of money, man hours and dedicated training the NHS spends each year to save lives in such time critical emergencies suggests so. These great efforts can be offset in just such a confined space as we are dealing with here. Regardless of engineers and others with dubious reasoning, please, if SLDC have any power at all to do so, don't let anyone else suffer needless loss, as we as a family have. Please, please, scrap this evil scheme.
The environmental concerns for Gill Banks must also be considered.
The 22 house trauma that awaits the residents of Mowings Lane can, even now be avoided. Why should they suffer what we in our lane have endured, it's been like living on the Somme and is getting worse.
The risk of flooding the cottages in Union Lane regardless of the (underhanded) building of new holding tanks, is a reality.
Have we not suffered enough already./
PWWilliamson
PS.
For my wife who cannot now write or type, please accept this from her as a separate appeal from her feelings and frustration . /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////2!”!”!”!”£$%^&*()_)__/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////.
JMWilliamson.
PPS. Sorry that my computer question mark is not working. It has been substituted by /// in each case.
