Comment

Representation ID: 13871

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: John Finnigan

The landscape integrity of the Valley will be materially affected by these developments, but even more so should the SEBAR be introduced, and in that case the increase in traffic will bring environmental hazards, particularly noise pollution and air pollution

Question 46b asks for comments on Policy EN8 and Question 47 for comments on Policy EN9. In both cases there is a clear contradiction, or “internal tension” as one officer put it, between these policies and the idea of constructing an arterial road and thousands of new houses on Green Belt land, in the heart of unspoilt countryside and the very fringes of the district: where transport by bicycle or on foot are for the fittest and those least constrained by time; where households with second or third cars will be the norm and not the exception; and where employment land is most likely to benefit those from outside the District, again bringing more motor vehicles into the vicinity of Tong Village.