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• The increase in numbers of residents would put the police under
considerable pressures to maintain law and order.
• The village facilities at present would not support the influx of
new residents, for example the doctors surgery is full, the police
station is manned by volunteers, there is no fire station, no
public indoor leisure facilities, no household waste recycling
centre and no bus services after 7pm or on Sundays. Train
services are limited and there is very limited parking at either
South Milford or Sherburn stations.
Whilst some of these problems could be mitigated to some extent by
developer contributions, the basic problem is that village services and
infrastructure are at and beyond capacity without the currently
proposed housing developments which could increase the population of
the village by at least 25%.
The Parish Council therefore does not support the application, and
request that they are refused on the ground that they are premature
and contrary to current policy, will create unacceptable congestion and
highways safety problems on residential roads and in the village centre
and will put unacceptable strain on village services, schools and
facilities.
Further comments were received from the Parish Council on 7 August
2012 relating to highways and these can be summarised as follows:
There are significant deficiencies with the traffic forecasting and
modelling work presented in particular the following needs to be
addressed:
• Discrepancies in traffic routing presented.
• Junction blocking with Wolsey Court and Church Hill.
• Traffic signal capacity modelling incorrect.
• Saturation flows are flawed.
• Intergreens are a significant reduction from the periods required
to allow safe operation of traffic signals and NYCC need to
review this.
• Queue lengths presented are inaccurate.
• Pedestrian crossing at Low Street/Moor Lane figures are flawed.
• Sherburn Enterprise Park access will mean more vehicles going
through Sherburn.
• Modelling is not sufficiently robust.
The Parish Council must stress that all we are asking for is a fair and
accurate assessment of the situation which recognises the reality on
the ground. Video footage presented makes it easy to identify the
number of vehicles which can pass through the Low Street/Moor Lane
junction under congestion type conditions and differ from the figures
presented by the developer.
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