Advice on how to object to a housing development

LTA

dgl1001 wrote: »

LTA - you should understand that developers are obliged to mitigate the impact of their developments, so regardless if there is an increase of traffic, it won;t be a means for refusing the application. I doubt you would understand what the TA says regardless. Why is this development bad anyway?

Thanks edgex, that's all valid.

I'd like to take a look at the Traffic Assessment if we can. The previous poster thought it would be useful.

I think you would need to see the road to understand why it is so bad but the cul de sac really cannot handle that amount of traffic. It is a narrow road where vehicles park on the pavement. Refuse and delivery lorries struggle to get past. It is also difficult to enter and exit the cul de sac because of its positioning on the main road. To increase the amount of cars using it as an entrance and exit point seems like it will cause chaos!

edgex

spmc wrote: »

just picking up on a few things above. I've worked with many national housebuilders for many years and never come across a case of one trying to hide the fact that such things as bats exist. Normally they will employ professional ecologists who will undertake surveys to establish the existance of protected species. There may be arguments about suitable mitigation but not in my experience the existence.

Planning applications are often refused on traffic grounds and also upheld at appeal. That's not to say there is a valid transport reason for objecting in this instance.

It's easier said than done but in my experience the most successful objections are the ones where local residents are able to avoid becoming emotionally involved and look objectively at a development. Objections need to be related to planning policies rather than simply a desire to stop a development. It is also worth considering whether there are amendments to an application that would make a development more bearable, with an all out campaign to seek to thwart a development with little policy basis you may lose the opportunity to negotiate some modifications.

There is little if any difference in the road construction required for a development of 20 houses or 500 houses.

but this is a new development of 100 houses, which will be using an existing piece of road that was originally designed & built for 50 houses.
standards for everything change over time.
there is also then the maintenance of the road surface to consider, its likely that it is booked in for inspection & maintenance on the basis that it has the existing level of traffic.
is the local council going to change their routine when their is all this extra traffic using the road?

it will also, during the construction period, have all the construction traffic using it.
i doubt a cul-de-sac road infrastructure was ever designed & built for that sort of traffic.




using the extra traffic created looks like a good route to take:
not only can you object to the extra traffic, but also the effects of that extra traffic, as you say, on the junction etc

LTA

The existing cul de sac is from the 50's/60's.

LTA

Just a quick question, the local MP has told people they can't object to the housing it just has to be the roads. I realise the highways issue is our most powerful argument but I had been led to believe people could still oppose the housing through the fact that its size is overbearing and it will affect privacy and enjoyment of gardens etc. Can anyone clear this up for me? I realise people can't oppose housing on the basis of loss of view or house value.