How will the proposed development affect Sandiacre?
25 March, 2009 - 15:28 — Green Squeeze
Are you from Sandiacre? If so please let us know your thoughts and concerns about the proposed development of the Stanton Iron Works site and access road.
Lorries are a real problem through Sandiacre. I don't think lorries will use the red route - they will come through here & up Lowes lane to the site . It will be a nightmare.
Looking at the proposed red route, it's pretty obvious that it's a road to nowhere. If anyone has seen Sandiacre at rush hour, they will know that it's grid locked. There has to be a sensible alternative that doesn't destroy the greenbelt.
I find it strange that no one has considered the additional impact of this Development
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ERE/0308/0035 - Stanton Ironworks, Stanton by Dale
"To consider an application for the erection of a class B2 factory building and associated ancillary offices, access and car parking, raw materials storage area and batching plant, ground works, lighting and landscaping. The formation of a rail connection, rail sidings, gantry cranes and storage areas for new and used concrete sleepers and the recycling of sleepers at Stanton Ironworks Old Tip, Lows Lane."
this proposes an additional 66 lorries A DAY through Sandiacre to supply the raw materials for the production of the sleepers, as well as the workers travelling to and from site. Add that to the two cars per household for the proposed housing development that we all know will commute via Sandiacre to get to the M1 / A52 junction, and quite frankly , if like me you live on the route through, you may as well reach for the mess webley now.
Sadly, I can tell you that this planning application was approved this time last year by Erewash Borough Council. I have opposed every planning application for the last ten years that has impacted negatively on my local community of Sandiacre, most of these have been for developemnts on the former Stanton site, and have involved increases in HGV traffic. Having spoken at many Council planning meetings, and written many letters to the Council over the years, even I was shocked at the manner with which the Council dealt with this application. Every single one of the Councillors voted to support the application, even the Sandiacre Councillor who sits on the committee. The only 5 councillors who spoke at the meeting were all either present or former Stanton/railway employees, who waffled about what fun it was to work for them 30 years ago. Not a single one of the others asked a question of the applicants, although I could have asked a hundred, but of course the public aren't allowed to ask questions, so there was no effective challenge to the propagnda contained in the applicants and the officers supporting documents. Crucial to the success of the application was the masking of the increase in HGV numbers through Sandiacre. The applicant stated that the levels of HGV movements would be less than at present as the HGVs currently clearing the Old Stanton Tip would soon be finished, and the additional movements would be less than that. The highways authority, Derbyshire County Council, in a far more closer scutiny of the applicants submissions, stated that "it is reiterated that the HGVs associated with the removal of the Old Stanton Tip are working under a temporary contract therefore use of these vehicles to offset the impact of additional HGVs is inappropriate". Guess what, that comment never made it into the Borough Officers Report to the committee, and neither did the other non supportive comments made by DCC. In contrast, read the officers report for the Stanton Bonna application for the same facility at Toton Sidings, submitted one year earlier. That officers report subjected the application to far more scrutiny, and measured it against the same local and national policies, and local impacts. Although only 2 miles apart, it concluded the opposite, and that was unanimously supported by the Council. The whole process has been utterly inexplicable, since apart from Lows Lane, the same routes and volumes applied. Having voted for the increase in HGVs from Stanton Bonna, the Council has now voted against the next Lafarge (Toton Sidings) works increase in HGVs, currently being considered by Notts County Council (5/01/00091/CMM) from 70 movements per day to 230 per day, on the same roads. This 300 % increase is considered by the applicants to be "imperceptible" but as Erewash voted last year to increase HGVs through Sandiacre the chances are that oppostion to the Lafarge application now bears no substance with Notts CC. My advice to anyone dealing with planners at Erewash is trust no-one, not even your own councillor, examine and challenge all their statements and reports, for they will sell their own communities down the road without shame in support of their colleagues in the development industry.
Sandiacre
Lorries are a real problem through Sandiacre. I don't think lorries will use the red route - they will come through here & up Lowes lane to the site . It will be a nightmare.
A52
Looking at the proposed red route, it's pretty obvious that it's a road to nowhere. If anyone has seen Sandiacre at rush hour, they will know that it's grid locked. There has to be a sensible alternative that doesn't destroy the greenbelt.
Stanton Bonna New factory
I find it strange that no one has considered the additional impact of this Development
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ERE/0308/0035 - Stanton Ironworks, Stanton by Dale
"To consider an application for the erection of a class B2 factory building and associated ancillary offices, access and car parking, raw materials storage area and batching plant, ground works, lighting and landscaping. The formation of a rail connection, rail sidings, gantry cranes and storage areas for new and used concrete sleepers and the recycling of sleepers at Stanton Ironworks Old Tip, Lows Lane."
http://www2.erewash.gov.uk/moderngov/(S(u11xgc555vwo0y45ayrpba45))/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=106&MId=387&Ver=4
this proposes an additional 66 lorries A DAY through Sandiacre to supply the raw materials for the production of the sleepers, as well as the workers travelling to and from site. Add that to the two cars per household for the proposed housing development that we all know will commute via Sandiacre to get to the M1 / A52 junction, and quite frankly , if like me you live on the route through, you may as well reach for the mess webley now.
Stanton Bonna new factory
Sadly, I can tell you that this planning application was approved this time last year by Erewash Borough Council. I have opposed every planning application for the last ten years that has impacted negatively on my local community of Sandiacre, most of these have been for developemnts on the former Stanton site, and have involved increases in HGV traffic. Having spoken at many Council planning meetings, and written many letters to the Council over the years, even I was shocked at the manner with which the Council dealt with this application. Every single one of the Councillors voted to support the application, even the Sandiacre Councillor who sits on the committee. The only 5 councillors who spoke at the meeting were all either present or former Stanton/railway employees, who waffled about what fun it was to work for them 30 years ago. Not a single one of the others asked a question of the applicants, although I could have asked a hundred, but of course the public aren't allowed to ask questions, so there was no effective challenge to the propagnda contained in the applicants and the officers supporting documents. Crucial to the success of the application was the masking of the increase in HGV numbers through Sandiacre. The applicant stated that the levels of HGV movements would be less than at present as the HGVs currently clearing the Old Stanton Tip would soon be finished, and the additional movements would be less than that. The highways authority, Derbyshire County Council, in a far more closer scutiny of the applicants submissions, stated that "it is reiterated that the HGVs associated with the removal of the Old Stanton Tip are working under a temporary contract therefore use of these vehicles to offset the impact of additional HGVs is inappropriate". Guess what, that comment never made it into the Borough Officers Report to the committee, and neither did the other non supportive comments made by DCC. In contrast, read the officers report for the Stanton Bonna application for the same facility at Toton Sidings, submitted one year earlier. That officers report subjected the application to far more scrutiny, and measured it against the same local and national policies, and local impacts. Although only 2 miles apart, it concluded the opposite, and that was unanimously supported by the Council. The whole process has been utterly inexplicable, since apart from Lows Lane, the same routes and volumes applied. Having voted for the increase in HGVs from Stanton Bonna, the Council has now voted against the next Lafarge (Toton Sidings) works increase in HGVs, currently being considered by Notts County Council (5/01/00091/CMM) from 70 movements per day to 230 per day, on the same roads. This 300 % increase is considered by the applicants to be "imperceptible" but as Erewash voted last year to increase HGVs through Sandiacre the chances are that oppostion to the Lafarge application now bears no substance with Notts CC. My advice to anyone dealing with planners at Erewash is trust no-one, not even your own councillor, examine and challenge all their statements and reports, for they will sell their own communities down the road without shame in support of their colleagues in the development industry.