Cllr Bernard McGuin - Save Lepton & Fenay Bridge Greenspaces Update

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Cllr Bernard McGuin said the submission of the planning application signified the end of consultation by the Dartmouth Estate with the public and the start of the consultation stage between the council and residents.

The area is recognized as earmarked for housing development in the Local Plan the onus will be on objectors to prove a case for non-development on the site.

Developers are attempting to "test the water" by building a limited number of houses initially but that the combination of around 80 homes on HS3 and a further 75 as phase one of HS2 meant the potential for traffic from 150 houses "with no reciprocal infrastructure improvement".

I am against a suggestion by highways officers and the plan inspector that a new roundabout need not be created until 200 homes had been built.

With what they are doing now there would be 70 houses at the bottom [of the joint plan] and 80 at the top but no infrastructure. They should at least put in traffic lights at the bottom of Rowley Lane where there is going to be a lot of pressure.

There will also be an impact on schools. There's no way King James's School can expand any more. It has reached its maximum. Yet there will be more kids. Where will they go? So there will be extra pressures on schools as well."

Local residents have until Thursday 23rd June to make a comment on the application www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/planning-applications/search-for-planning-applications/detail.aspx?id=2022/91735

P.S For more information please visit www.leptonvision.com .The next Lepton Vision meeting will be held on Wednesday 15th June at Rowley Hill Club, 19:30hrs. Please contact Lepton.Vision@outlook.com and make Chairman, Michael Lilley aware that you wish to attend.

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Cllr Bernard McGuin - Almondbury Ward Councillor Facebook: facebook.com/bernard.mcguin
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