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I
strongly believe that this is the wrong site for such a large development. This
is a blatant attempt by a builder to use the current mess in
the planning system created by the actions of a Government doing everything it
can to ride rough shod over local Authorities and local communities, in its
attempt to create a housing bubble ahead of the general elections in 2015.
To put this amount of housing in a small village like Scissett is totally ridiculous. It will totally change this small village beyond recognition.
To build this amount of houses behind two existing estates and expect roads that were clearly only designed to support the amount of traffic generated by the existing estates is a recipe for disaster.
The road that all these extra traffic movements will feed on to is at a virtual standstill at peak times with two busy Schools been only just up the road, which themselves generate a large volume of traffic.
To build this amount of houses behind two existing estates and expect roads that were clearly only designed to support the amount of traffic generated by the existing estates is a recipe for disaster.
The road that all these extra traffic movements will feed on to is at a virtual standstill at peak times with two busy Schools been only just up the road, which themselves generate a large volume of traffic.
Kirklees, like most other Northern Councils not controlled by the Tories has had huge cuts in its budget and still continues to suffer these huge unjustifiable cuts in its budget. Given these huge cuts it is clear that there will be no money to improve the infrastructure of the village; it is clear then that the lives of the residents already living in the village will be badly affected.
I am no nimby and believe that successive Governments have failed to meet the housing needs of the nation.
We need to build on suitable sites such as brown field and nearer to where jobs are and are likely to be created in the future, not on green field sites in small villages, where people have to travel to work.
We need affordable homes for our young people and decent well designed properties for older people, who want to move out of their family homes into somewhere smaller and more manageable as they get older.
None of these needs will be met by the proposed 300 houses in Scissett; they will simply be commuter homes for people working in the large nearby city's.
Red Row are simply looking to make money, at the expense of the current residents in Scissett.
Regards
We need to build on suitable sites such as brown field and nearer to where jobs are and are likely to be created in the future, not on green field sites in small villages, where people have to travel to work.
We need affordable homes for our young people and decent well designed properties for older people, who want to move out of their family homes into somewhere smaller and more manageable as they get older.
None of these needs will be met by the proposed 300 houses in Scissett; they will simply be commuter homes for people working in the large nearby city's.
Red Row are simply looking to make money, at the expense of the current residents in Scissett.
Regards
Cllr Graham Turner, Denby Dale Ward
