20 ACCESS ROADS - WD/2015/0090/MAO

  SHIT CREEK LIME CROSS DEVELOPMENT LATIMER UP TO 70 HOUSES

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DANGEROUS OR WHAT - What visibility splay? Have East Sussex County Council gone mad. The hedge on the left prevents any car coming from the proposed site entrance, from seeing to the right. From this one easily obtained picture it is obvious that the approval of this entrance for up to 70 dwellings is a rubber stamp job by ESCC Highways. The proposed new entrance is the other side of a hill that has had a few accidents, so introducing a dangerous situation that could affect hundreds of travelers on the A271. Drivers coming from Windmill Hill will see the nose of a vehicle and may be forced to brake hard, when the driver seeking to exit Lime Cross, is forced to put the nose of his vehicle in the path of oncoming traffic. Approval of this application without any real investigation of the facts is suspect to say the least. The way Wealden got around that is to put the onus on the developer to prove their case - but in fact, in making a grant tends to egg on a developer, figures can sometimes be massaged. This was formerly application WD/2014/2663/MAO in the name of Tim Watson. It seems as though they don't mind a few fatalities if they can generate some money in a pot.

WD/2015/0090/MAO - CONDITION 20 - ACCESS INTERNAL SITE ROADS

20. Detailed drawings of the internal access roads shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority, and such drawings shall show the widths of the carriageways and footpaths, visibility splays, construction of the carriageways, footpaths, sewers and manholes, cross falls and the longitudinal falls of the road and footpaths, the lines and levels of the sewers and the position and type of any street lighting scheme. The new access roads shall be constructed to a standard approved by the Local Planning Authority with a view to subsequent adoption as a maintainable highway and the works phased and completed with the progress of building construction to the approval of the Local Planning Authority. HW13(M)

REASON: In the interests of and for the safety of persons and vehicles using the premises and/or the adjoining road, having regard to SPO2, SPO12, SPO13 and WCS14 to the Wealden Core Strategy Local Plan 2013, Saved Policy TR3 of the adopted Wealden Local Plan 1998, coupled with the requirements of paragraph 32 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012

LATIMER, THAKEHAM, CLARION (GROUP) - LIST OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT

Peter Rawlinson - Gleeson Strategic Land

Ben Rainbow - Arboricultural & Biodiversity Officer

Steve Tuhey - Managing Director, Thakeham Client

Richard White, Director of Land and Planning at Latimer & Clarion Housing Group

LATIMER DEVELOPMENTS - Previously: William Sutton Developments Limited

Christopher John Hatfield

Ruth Margaret Cooke

David Simon Fordham

Austen Barry Reid

Rupert Owen Sebag-Montefiore

Mark Christopher Rogers

David Anthony Lewis

Michelle Reynolds

Southern Water - Nick Claxton Team Manager – Flood Risk Management & Revai Kinsella, Principal Drainage Officer

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WD/2015/0090/ HERSTMONCEUX VILLAGE CONDITIONS A - Z INDEX

WD/2015/0090/MAO - GLEESON DEVELOPMENTS LTD

This application is not only contrary to Wealden's Local Plan, but is considered by many to be downright dangerous. The A271 is a narrow country road that is already overloaded - with many traffic jams in the village high street causing motorists serious delays on occasion. The increase in traffic from a dense residential development at this location is nothing short of madness.