5 responses from Mr & Mrs Mike & Ann Blezard (Individual)
1. Mr & Mrs Mike & Ann Blezard (Individual) : 14 Dec 2017 15:46:00
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Policy Reference
AS18(part of A9) - Land on Hollins Lane, Arnside
1.1 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be legally compliant?
Yes
1.3 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be sound?
No
1.4 If NO please indicate the ground(s) on which you consider the DPD to be unsound
The DPD is not effective
1.5 Please give details of why you consider the DPD is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the Duty to Cooperate. Please be as precise as possible.
If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the DPD or its compliance with the Duty to Cooperate, please also use this box to set out your comments.
Sound infrastructure delivery planning is not achieved.
The section of the lane subject to this plan is only wide enough for one vehicle. Two vehicles can only pass if they do this very slowly and carefully and are able to use driveways at any point in the lane.If the proposed 6 homes were built then there could be about 12 owners' cars plus service traffic accessing Hollins Lane and we think this could significantly increase the danger to pedestrians. Apart from local use, Hollins Lane is used as a shortcut (sat. nav. prompted) to and from the Silverdale Road and often pedestrians have to dodge into a drive to get out of the way of a car going at speed. Pedestrian use is not only by local adults and children, but by walkers heading for Arnside Knott from the railway station. The plan does not address this existing infrastructure problem and will make it worse.
1.6 Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to resolve your objection and make the DPD legally compliant or sound, having regard to the matter(s) you have identified above. (Please note that any non-compliance with the Duty to Cooperate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the DPD legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible.
Our suggestion is that Hollins Lane should be closed to motorised traffic near the point where the lane meets Plantation Avenue. This closure need only be for a few metres, enough to ensure that the lane could no longer be used as a viable shortcut to Silverdale Road. A narrower entrance to the development could be provided, allowing a considerably longer stretch of wall and hedge to be preserved. Vehicular access to AS18 would only be possible from the Silverdale Road, allowing the residents of Hollins Lane from this road, down to the house called “Sandpiper”, to have safer access to their homes. The rest of Hollins Lane would also become safer for pedestrians and cyclists because only drivers with a need to be on the lane would use it.
2.1 If your representation is seeking a modification, do you wish to participate at the oral part of the Examination?
No, I do not wish to participate at the oral examination
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2. Mr & Mrs Mike & Ann Blezard (Individual) : 14 Dec 2017 16:19:00
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Policy Reference
AS18(part of A9) - Land on Hollins Lane, Arnside
1.1 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be legally compliant?
Yes
1.3 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be sound?
No
1.4 If NO please indicate the ground(s) on which you consider the DPD to be unsound
The DPD is not effective
1.5 Please give details of why you consider the DPD is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the Duty to Cooperate. Please be as precise as possible.
If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the DPD or its compliance with the Duty to Cooperate, please also use this box to set out your comments.
The DPD should be deliverable over its period and based on effective joint working on crossboundary
strategic priorities.
With respect to AS18 the DPD does not comply with the following the Management Plan priority 1.2.4(ll).
A lane, in one of the generally accepted meanings of the word, is narrow and often bounded by hedges, walls or fences. Such lanes, in urban areas, are rare and need to be protected from too much change. Hollins Lane currently meets this definition in the section bounded by the wall and hedge of this A18 proposal, and if adopted, over half of this would disappear and the lane would be considerably widened. The character of the lane would disappear and there would be a loss of wildlife habitat. Also the current field holds sheep and gives a rural feel to the environment.
If the proposal were adopted, then, apart from a narrow glimpse of the field in between the houses, the field would , for all intents and purposes,disappear from view. All over the country, in towns and villages, every little plot of green land is being built on, with little thought to the change in character of the habitation. Arnside has a certain uniqueness and should be careful it does not lose this. N.B. AS18 incorrectly states: " Access, retaining the remainder of the site as public open space and opening up long views are key issues". The field is not POS (not listed in appendix 2) and it would not be possible to replace the view from the Hollins Lane gate.
1.6 Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to resolve your objection and make the DPD legally compliant or sound, having regard to the matter(s) you have identified above. (Please note that any non-compliance with the Duty to Cooperate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the DPD legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible.
Remove AS18 from the plan.
2.1 If your representation is seeking a modification, do you wish to participate at the oral part of the Examination?
No, I do not wish to participate at the oral examination
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3. Mr & Mrs Mike & Ann Blezard (Individual) : 14 Dec 2017 16:39:00
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Policy Reference
AS18(part of A9) - Land on Hollins Lane, Arnside
1.3 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be sound?
No
1.4 If NO please indicate the ground(s) on which you consider the DPD to be unsound
The DPD is not effective
1.5 Please give details of why you consider the DPD is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the Duty to Cooperate. Please be as precise as possible.
If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the DPD or its compliance with the Duty to Cooperate, please also use this box to set out your comments.
Sound infrastructure delivery planning
Hollins lane appears to have only two drain holes in its entire length, both near to the junction with Plantation Avenue. During heavy rainfall, water runs from Silverdale Rd., down the upper part of Hollins lane and if it misses the two drain holes, it continues to flow down Hollins on the east side of the road, possibly impacting all the houses on that side. There is a public combined sewer running down part of the lane, and we understand that there have been cases of sewage overflowing during heavy rain. Clearly the current infrastructure needs examination and possibly updating. This is not covered by the plan.
1.6 Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to resolve your objection and make the DPD legally compliant or sound, having regard to the matter(s) you have identified above. (Please note that any non-compliance with the Duty to Cooperate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the DPD legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible.
Current infrastructure needs to be updated with respect to drainage and sewers.
2.1 If your representation is seeking a modification, do you wish to participate at the oral part of the Examination?
No, I do not wish to participate at the oral examination
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4. Mr & Mrs Mike & Ann Blezard (Individual) : 14 Dec 2017 16:47:00
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Policy Reference
Policy Omission
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Climate Change
1.3 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be sound?
No
1.4 If NO please indicate the ground(s) on which you consider the DPD to be unsound
The DPD is not effective
The DPD is not consistent with national policy
1.5 Please give details of why you consider the DPD is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the Duty to Cooperate. Please be as precise as possible.
If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the DPD or its compliance with the Duty to Cooperate, please also use this box to set out your comments.
The National Planning Policy Framework includes the requirements for local authorities to adopt proactive strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change in line with the provisions and objectives of the Climate Change Act 2008, and co-operate to deliver strategic priorities which include climate change.
There is no strategy which specifically covers the above.
1.6 Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to resolve your objection and make the DPD legally compliant or sound, having regard to the matter(s) you have identified above. (Please note that any non-compliance with the Duty to Cooperate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the DPD legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible.
A cohesive strategy and delivery plan is needed.
2.1 If your representation is seeking a modification, do you wish to participate at the oral part of the Examination?
No, I do not wish to participate at the oral examination
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5. Mr & Mrs Mike & Ann Blezard (Individual) : 14 Dec 2017 16:59:00
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I have read the guidance notes
Policy Reference
AS18(part of A9) - Land on Hollins Lane, Arnside
1.3 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be sound?
No
1.4 If NO please indicate the ground(s) on which you consider the DPD to be unsound
The DPD is not effective
1.5 Please give details of why you consider the DPD is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the Duty to Cooperate. Please be as precise as possible.
If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the DPD or its compliance with the Duty to Cooperate, please also use this box to set out your comments.
The field was once a playing field for a private school and there is an old pavilion (wooden?) still in existence.
There will be some in Arnside who know the history of this field and we submit that this is part of the tapestry of the village.
1.6 Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to resolve your objection and make the DPD legally compliant or sound, having regard to the matter(s) you have identified above. (Please note that any non-compliance with the Duty to Cooperate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the DPD legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible.
Remove from plan.
2.1 If your representation is seeking a modification, do you wish to participate at the oral part of the Examination?
No, I do not wish to participate at the oral examination
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