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

• It would appear that the developers have once again submitted
applications to encompass the total amount of dwellings to be built
in Sherburn until 2027 in these three submissions. The total
amount being that, that is likely to be defined and ratified in the
emerging Core Strategy. Notwithstanding the newly published
NPPF which indicates that overprovision is something to be viewed
upon positively, I believe that SDC, on behalf of their residents
could challenge the amount to be built (in the short term i.e. before
2020) as unsustainable, unreasonable and unnecessary.
• When the original Core strategy for this area was discussed and
developed around 7 or 8 years ago, it was thought that there would
be a need for further housing due to the growth in jobs in the Area,
this has plainly not occurred .If anything the number of jobs
available to people in Sherburn and its immediate confines is less
than it was back then. Linpac closed completely and the planned
400 jobs from Optare never materialised for Sherburn residents to
my knowledge, Gasgoine Wood plans have never materialised.
Highways, Access and Transportation
• restricted number of parking spaces near services in Sherburn
• traffic passes through housing estates and centre of village,
commuters use Fairway and The Eversleys as a ‘cut-through’
• Roads are not wide enough
• Safety concerns with the additional level of traffic that the
development would generate
• If development is approved should be accessed via Low Street or
A162 by-pass.
• No indication when the link road will be built
• Urgent infrastructure required and adequate roads to the
development
• Sherburn-in-Elmet already has a road accident record nearly twice
the national average
• Low Street is heavily used by school children on their way to/ from
the two nearby schools. Proposal is close to the New Lane/Low
Street junction which is used by HGV traffic and which had a history
of accidents leading to it being listed as an accident black spot
• The plans indicate that new bus stops are to be provided on Low
Street, but not pull-ins, so buses stopping and starting will be an
additional hazard
• The school run forms 24% of morning rush hour traffic (Dept. for
Transport figures) but the Transport Assessment submitted with
these applications does not consider it. With traffic and pedestrians
from 598 homes heading towards two schools on the opposite side
of New Lane then the additional hazard will be considerable,
particularly on a dark, wet winter morning when the there will be a
surge in the use of cars for the school run
• The Transport Assessment submitted contains several “optimistic”
assumptions and some which are just plain wrong. Must insist that
there is an independent appraisal of the capacity of the traffic lights
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