Object

Representation ID: 20365

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Megan King

With an additional 145 houses, the town will look extremely industrial. Silsden is a small village nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside and is being ripped apart.

This together with other recent development sites (totaling 450 units) would have severe repercussions with access issues, increased population thus leading to higher crime and violence.

Increased traffic on the narrow roads through the town are creating access problems for emergency services and safety issues.

Services such as the supermarkets, doctors surgery are all busy and under pressure.

There is a severe lack of care for the pedestrians of Silsden as despite all additional properties, no pedestrian crossing has been implemented.

There is also no access to the site along with a highly busy bypass which is required to be crossed to reach the neighboring towns and/or train station.

The site adjoins allotments - looking out over a construction site would be awful for allotment holders.