Planning Application

Reasons to object are of course, personal to you, but you may wish to consider the following issues:

• New Quay Road lacks basic amenities such as a bus service, a local shop, a healthcare centre, school, etc. It is not a sustainable location for more housing.
• 250 more houses will generate thousands of extra daily car trips on New Quay Road.
• Lorry traffic associated with removal of contaminated soil and construction will create noise, air pollution and danger for residents of the quay and users of the Lancaster to Glasson cycleway and bridleway.
• Freeman's Wood is designated as a local green space in the emerging new Local Plan.
• More than 800 new homes have already been built or are under construction/have planning permission on the quay at St George's Walk and Riverside View. Very little green space has been included in these developments so it is even more important that Freeman's Wood remains as a local green space for recreational use by the growing local community.
• It's the whole green space (a mixture of woodland, scrub and open grassland) that we value as a local community - not just the footpaths and trees around the edge.
• The variety of habitats within Freeman's Wood as well as in the surrounding countryside makes it a haven for birds and other wildlife. Many of these habitats will be destroyed or degraded if the land is developed.
• Roads within the development and the proposed cyclepath along the edge of Coronation Field and Lucy Brook would need to be well lit for public safety. However, lighting would disturb wildlife like owls and bats in the adjacent woodland.
• Developing Freeman's Wood would increase disturbance of the adjacent Freemans Pools nature reserve and internationally important protected bird habitat on the nearby Lune estuary.
• Developing Freeman's Wood would create pressure for a new access road across Coronation Field.