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Representation ID: 5381

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Benjamin Statham

The Sun Lane development will damage the local ecology, barn owls, egrets and curlews all feed on the land, with barn owls using the local trees to nest in. Deer also use the land to graze. More development means less habitat. Also, the sewerage systems are already polluting the wharfe, with recent commitments to clean the Wharfe, I do not see how a development of this size will integrate with an antiquated waste and sewerage system, one that frequently discharges waste matter, and with it, harmful bacteria, into the river.

Also, the fields will no longer act as areas that absorb water coming off the moors, which will exascerbate the flooding that part of the river is prone to, affecting business owners, and people commuting along the valley.