Glossop Spur Planning Application Submitted
URGENT: Object to Planning Applications for the Glossop Spur Road - deadline 24th November 2005
Letters are urgently needed to object to the Glossop Spur Road planning application. If enough letters are sent in, there may have to be a public inquiry into this scheme. This is a very damaging scheme that will intersect farmland and be built across a floodplain. The local council claim this road must be built alongside the A628 trunk road scheme in order for proposed Mottram-Tintwistle road to be "effective", so stopping the Glossop Spur would be a really big step towards ridiculing the whole A628 scheme. Please be part of stopping this road scheme by writing letters now.
Because the plans straddle the Tameside/High Peak county boundaries, it is necessary to submit objections to both planning departments.
Your letter or e-mail should be headed: OBJECTIONS TO PLANNING APPLICATIONS [APPLICATION NUMBER] (GLOSSOP SPUR ROAD)
And sent to:
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Tameside MBC |
High Peak |
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05/01550/R3D |
HPK/2005/0826 |
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In writing to: |
Ms C Blackett |
Mr Chris Beebe Planning Department High Peak Borough Council |
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The deadline for objections is 24th November.
Suggested reasons are:
1) It would cause unacceptable damage to the natural environment. This is unnecessary because there are alternatives, more sustainable measures that would reduce journey delay times to acceptable levels.
2) The landscape is unsuitable for any building work as it is a floodplain.
3) The road will cause irreparable damage to farming communities, farmland, and wildlife habitats. Badgers inhabit the area, as do many other species of wildlife.
4) It is forecast to give rise to traffic induction and thereby increased carbon dioxide emissions, contrary to Government policies.
5) The Council has not proposed any alternative to the Glossop Spur road, in direct contravention of Government guidance on local authority road schemes.
6) It does nothing to solve the problems caused by traffic getting out of Glossop in the mornings. The congestion, noise, and pollution will simply be shunted from Tameside over Dinting in Derbyshire.
7) It does not alleviate problems of HGVs accessing industrial sites in Hadfield via Woolley Bridge road, Hadfield, or New Road, Tintwistle.
8) Tameside MBC's policy not to implement integrated transport measures until after the bypass is built is unacceptable. If such measures were to be put in place there would be no need to increase road capacity.
9) Public transport in the area is under-provisioned. There is no direct bus service into Manchester or Sheffield from Hadfield and Glossop. Train services are unreliable and already overutilised at peak times.
10) The impact of the new park and ride facility from Dinting on passenger journeys into Manchester is not yet known. This facility may encourage modal shift and reduce the impacts of road transport on the areas road network.
11) There are no bus lanes and no bus priority measures in place.
12) Bus and train services remain uncoordinated.
13) Tameside MBC and Derbyshire CC's transport policies have failed to bring about significant increases in walking and cycling in the Mottram, Hollingworth, and Glossop areas. The Council must introduce effective policies and provide the resources for their implementation.
14) To reduce delays and bring about a significant improvement in road safety and traffic flows, Dinting Arches should be made a no-stopping zone, to discourage parents from picking up their children in their cars and parking on this road.
15) There is a significant contribution to traffic at commuter times by cars on school trips to Dinting, Hollingworth, Mottram, and Broadbottom. These trips could be reduced through School Travel Plans agreed between the schools and Derbyshire CC/Tameside MBC. The Council must be more determined in its efforts to bring about modal shift through School Travel Plans.
16) The proposed road is not a regional priority so that, because of limited
funding, there is doubt that, even if approved, it could be built within the
period of the North West Regional Spatial Strategy 2006-2026.
