Agenda with Maps and Applications (21Mb) - pdf - Selby District ...

- Carousel Walk being opened up into a "through road", will allow
speeding down Carousel Walk with little regard for those around
them and mini traffic jams will occur due to cars being parked on
the roadside.
- The Fairway is already used as a ‘rat-run’ by those looking to avoid
the traffic lights in Sherburn village centre and at peak times that
traffic is often seen to be exceeding safe speeds on roads intended
originally only for estate traffic.
- It is only a matter of time before the combination of excessive
speed and congestion produces a serious traffic incident
- Minimum road width is under guideline of 6.10m according to DFT.
- Development should be accessed from either Low Street or the
A162 by-pass.
- Traffic lights in the village centre can barely cope with the volume
of traffic now.
- traffic data that was collected/collated in December 2011 should
not be taken as an accurate record of the traffic flow.
- Concern that whoever conducted survey has made calculations for
the traffic lights based on there being non-blocking storage of 3
vehicles on Finkle Hill and Low Street (ie there can be 3 vehicles
waiting to turn right at the lights and there is still room for another
vehicle to pass on the inside). In reality the non-blocking storage is
zero.
- There are fundamental errors in the transport assessment which
was submitted in support of the application by DPP.
- Would ask that the link road is required to be constructed under a
S106 agreement (applied to all consents, if given) as soon as
works start on site.
- Insufficient ‘safe’ crossing areas for the pedestrian.
- Sir John's Lane is not capable of taking the volume of traffic at the
moment never mind the additional vehicles that will come when the
next phase of building works will bring.
- Link road would be a positive proposal, however MacGay Wayne
Ltd shows on their plans the spur roads linking up to create through
roads on their development. This would not alleviate traffic from the
existing Fairway/Pasture Estate but would increase it tremendously
by creating rat runs from the proposed new developments along
Fairfield Link and Carousel Walk into the Fairway.
- Quite a few home owners have to back their cars onto the street
because of the very poor design when the houses were originally
built
Landscaping including impact on Landscape Character and Visual
Amenity of the Area
- Expansion of the village will spoil the character of the place
- The open outlook from Carousel Walk will be lost.
- At the bottom of Carousel Walk there is a stunning tree and
greenery, this would all have to go.
- The road would have to pass over a watercourse
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