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I'd like to object to a planned development in my town - there's just so much building going on, and everytime a house is sold it seems to be knocked down and 10 flats built on it!

Are you able to help with my objections? It's not near enough to me to cause me any bother whatsoever except that I drive down that road every day, and the days I don't drive down it I drive past it. It already has to deal with a builders yard there, and the noise and occasional traffic problems that generates, and it's a really nice little road. It's on a corner of a main road, so the flats will loom over two the houses behind it, on the other side of the main road and of course the poor sods who live next door, although I don't suppose the builders merchant will care one way or the other!

Any tips?

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The house they want to knock down is not really very spectactular, but it's the sort of house you think that if you want to move to a nicer area you'd have to have the grottiest house to be able to afford it.... There's just loads of land because it's a corner, but building few houses would be a better plan. From google earth and the plans I couldn't see how cars would get round the back to the (tiny) car park.

Sorry, I've given you loads of info before you've even said 'yes', I have until Monday to object.

Any objection has to be on planning grounds (ie that the proposal does not comply with the local plan (or whatever it's called this week) and the website handily quotes all the relevant bits of the plan so I'd go with that. It looks like the objections co-ordinator is drafting or has drafted a suitable letter - if it's been okay by a real town planner then it will be better than anything I could come up with!

Traffic is really tricky cos current policy is to provide fewer parking spaces than the development is likely to actually need, on the grounds that this will encourage people to use public transport instead of owning a car. Yes, I know. Anyway, the direct result of this is that there will inevitably be a parking problem and this will create a traffic problem *but they can't take account of that*. Might be able to argue that the junction would be unsafe on highway grounds but the council will have taken the view of the highways authority on that and frankly if the highways authority thinks it's OK they aren't going to pay much attention to what members of the public say.

Best of luck ...

Mol

Thank you! It's a busy school area too, and unusually a lot of them walk, so maybe I'll take that angle, thank you.