Object

Preferred Options

Representation ID: 47090

Received: 26/07/2012

Respondent: Mr A Beswick

Representation Summary:

The Options documents seem to seek to hide the real nature of road proposals between Blackdown and the A46 and do not address the need for a new Highway in the Green Belt and across a river valley

Full text:

I object to the way this plan has not been presented with the same promnence as the land allocation plan, as if the two were unrelated. I object to its inclusion in an Appendix only. I object to the use of fuzzy blobs keyed as 'highways improvements' to cover a new highway proposal which is already known to be controversial.
And I object to the argument which says you need to build a link between the A46 and Blackdown to serve the new development areas when the areas are not themselves justifiable or inevitable. If the road is needed for other reasons, demonstrate them. I object to building a new highway in the Green Belt, across a river valley without very very good reason