Local Development Framework Consultation

Planned Development within Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty of Silverdale

Dear Sirs and Madams,

Comments were invited, regarding the above, at Council and other venues in this neighbourhood and I am convinced, that I should respond:

(I) Britain has less tree cover and quality farmland than elsewhere in Europe and what remains, I feel, should not be despoiled by making (needlessly) “Greenfield sites” into “Brownfield sites”.

(II) Wildlife which includes a host of orchids scarcely exists outside the Silverdale Area. Let us consider this Bounty - how and where it grows, before sentencing natures “glories” to an inglorious “death” under concrete and macadam!
And so many rare species of bird exist hereabouts particularly at “Leighton Moss”!
But they will leave as abruptly as they came if petrol/oil fumes build up without strict control. Yes, the recently arrived egrets will quit the area and say “Goodbye”. They will “go” the same way as the Larch and the Ash – and the whole country will be so much the poorer!
The above (I) and (II) only begin to indicate the fast developing tragedy! There is (everywhere) so much more of our heritage that is being despoiled.

Now let’s think of practicability:

(III) Are the occupants of the “new build housing” to work locally? If so where?
What transport is to be provided? Do people wish to live outside “the town”, when income is constrained? Do they wish to travel daily, perhaps twenty miles, to earn a living; this could be counterproductive.
What is the extent of the “carbon footprint” to sustain these houses? Please consider the chronic parking problems and increasing traffic on these local roads!

The development of new housing in Silverdale, I submit, makes NO Sense at all!
I hope the politicians will see sense and reject this development in its entirety.

Yours faithfully,


Ray Lee,