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We need full details of development proposal
EDITOR - In response to Lynn Brumby, Caistor resident, I express sympathy and concern for her situation. From her letter to Rasen News.
November 25, it would seem that she shares a "party wall" with the derelict Talbot Inn.
However, her final paragraph is not an accurate reflection of what "these people" have put on record. The primary concern is for pedestrian safety. High Street is without question a serious hazard, mitigated to some degree by having very few residents to the north side who are well used to the problem. They readily give way to the truckers with their heavy loads struggling up the hill, many being the heaviest permitted on UK roads.
To deliberately plan to allow a supermarket style store to be developed on the north side of High Street beggars belief. There will be a very significant increase in the pedestrian/road traffic mix, an undeniable factor, and against nationwide efforts to separate pedestrians and road traffic, often at very great expense.
It is accepted the site cannot be left in its present state, but alternatives have been proposed. High Street, west to east, is steep, but the site itself off-road to the north side is flat, ideal for development for a single row of terraced housing, suitably landscaped; and houses among houses.
The planning authority did not strictly comply with the full disclosure requirements; meaningless drawing of outlines being presented for public viewing, mostly at remote sites, and no impact statements being voluntarily displayed to the public. Caistor town councillors have themselves gone on record with comments such as " a done deal". Their words, not mine. All that is being asked for at present is to defer the implementation of the planning "deal" to permit a full and open debate of everything out in the open for Caistor residents to be fully informed prior to making their views known; something so far not done.
Ray Beecham
Waterhills Court
Caistor
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