Response from Mrs Sarah Fishwick (Individual)
1. Mrs Sarah Fishwick (Individual) : 29 Apr 2016 16:38:00
Please make your comments in the box below and refer specifically to the reference number of each site you are commenting on.
Site 126 is an elevated and isolated site presently maintained as part of Silverdale Golf Club.
Any development on this site would be visually intrusive in the AONB and help to destroy the purpose and designation of the AONB.
Site 127 is a greenfield site on Bottoms Lane which is unsuitable for housing or commercial development in the AONB. Greenfield sites should only be considered as a last resort. This is a speculative site that should be resisted.
Site 128 is another speculative site that has been changed from being used and managed as part of a farming enterprise to a mixture of what appears to be rubbish, a few pigs and various abandoned items. It is at the end of Sand Lane which only has housing on one side, and would create a serious visual impact. Any development would stretch the village boundary and negatively impact on the visual and amenity aspects of the AONB.
All three sites if approved for development would set precedents very difficult to counter in most other parts of the AONB.
This should be resisted if the Planning system is serious about the importance of the AONB and its policies.
Development should be prioritised on redundant brownfield sites.
