Name:

Address: (note: you can ask for name/address to be withheld, but your representation may carry less weight if you do this)

Planning Inspectorate Appeal Reference: APP/Y2003/W/22/3307310

Site Address: Land west of Brigg Road and south of Horkstow Road, Barton upon Humber DN18 5DZ

To: Planning Inspectorate, Bristol

I am against the appeal proposals and agree with the refusal decision made by North Lincolnshire Council (NLC).

I fully support and welcome appropriate development. However, I consider this development to be totally inappropriate and submit the following opinions and comments:

1.   This development will cause irreversible ecological and pollution damage both during construction and ongoing use. It will obliterate much needed food-producing agricultural (greenbelt) land and replace swathes of it with concrete. How does that align with COP 27 objectives and widespread public sentiment?

2.   This developer-led proposal is not supported by NLC, Barton Town Council, our Local MP and multiple individuals.

3.   The public is repeatedly being told that there is Government-stated intent to:

·         Protect greenbelt land

·         Prioritise brownfield development

·         Take meaningful notice of local opinion

This appeal seeks to ignore these key important assurances, it seems.

4     It seeks to overturn the democratically evolved 2038 Local Plan submission. This document (and widespread community opinion) acknowledges that the town’s infrastructure and facilities are already seriously overloaded. The community encounters plenty of real-world evidence of this on an ongoing daily basis.

5     Considerations should include justified local community need and true sustainability. As opposed to shifting Government or Local Authority overall targets that may fall short elsewhere (e.g. Scunthorpe Lakes Project?). There is plentiful evidence and opinion that Barton is already shouldering very heavy or excessive development burdens – i.e. without the addition of this developer-led agenda.

6     Apart from stating “up to 390 dwellings”, the application appears to be wide open for subsequent major reconfiguration. Key elements – including layout and scale – are reserved matters.

7     There are reasons to suspect that this is just the start of a far bigger development agenda. Comments made by Banks during a video presentation to *Barton Planning Committee on 16/8/21 included mention of discussions with the Top 5 UK house builders (for 390 dwellings?!), that it was a better site and more desirable than elsewhere (primarily a commercial agenda?) and that alternative sites weren’t available, allegedly. (*Source: Bartonraid.net website)

8     Interest in adjacent land that was declared at application stage reinforces suspicion about a far bigger longer term developer-led objective. For a community and town that’s already overloaded.

In an opinion shared by many others, I believe this a totally inappropriate development.  

I hope that the Planning Inspectorate will reject this appeal accordingly.

RAID cannot write the email or letter for you. If a standard letter is sent, you’ll get a standard answer !

The following may assist you:

From

Resident name  (the more individual emails/letters that are sent, the more notice will be, hopefully, taken) 

To

Martin Vickers (martin.vickers.mp@parliament.uk) (surface mail address on previous page)

Rob Waltham (rob.waltham@northlincs.gov.uk) (surface mail address on previous page)

Copy to

Barton Town Clerk (town.clerk@bartonuponhumbertowncouncil.gov.uk) (surface mail address on previous page)

SUBJECT

Proposed Banks Development at Barton upon Humber

Dear Sirs,

Concerns you may wish to raise could include: 

And perhaps ask (if relevant) if this is what you voted for…..

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