Object

Harborough Local Plan 2011-2031, Proposed Submission

Representation ID: 7277

Received: 02/11/2017

Respondent: Miss A Tiktin

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

This Plan is neither legally compliant nor sound, claims being made about what the current situation is to claim this is sustainable are fundamentally untrue. The Plan as is, will endanger the lives of local residents.

Full text:

This proposal fails to be legally compliant; due to the legal requirements to fulfill the sustainability appraisal. Social and environmental aspects are being systematically ignored; risking lives of local residents.
The Plan is unsound as it is not positively prepared (see notes re: present and future infrastructure have not been met and/or addressed in the proposal), not effective (there is no joint working, let alone effective, as the issues raised by the Parish/Town Council are ignored by Harborough District and County Council regularly), or consistent with national policy (see note about unsustainable development).
This proposal is for 2750 of the 4660 houses in the entire plan be at Lutterworth (in addition to an increase 1000 people in the last ten years and current and already agreed building projects.
This in conjunction with the reduction to public services/infrastructure already (i.e. closure of Police Station, closure of hospital, worsening public transport meaning it is useless for commuting or getting access to hospitals elsewhere, the lack of improvement to local roads, refusal to take action concerning dangerous road junctions) means it does not meet the requirements stated above to make the proposal legal or sound. All issues not addressed in the proposal. Please see paper marked A

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Examples of dangerous junctions are Leicester Road/Frank Whittle Way, which Harborough District have just made a 4 way junction with no traffic control measures.

Also the roundabout between Brookfield Way and the "Bypass" that does not have a clear line of sight to the right making this incredibly dangerous. Another issue both Harborough and the County Council have refused to address.

These issues demonstrate a lack of ability to create sustainable development; and will be made significantly worse by a dramatic increase in the population.

Whilst in the "Plan" mention is made of some community facilities, these don't include secondary schools, supermarkets, churches, restaurants etc. Lutterworth will be used for these adding traffic to already dangerous roads and pollution levels (Lutterworth already has some of the worst pollution levels in the Country for a settlement our size!)

If this Plan as flamed as it is, is passed it will result in deaths of local residents.