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The planning application which the residents of Tankersley and Pilley have successfully defeated in 2 separate battles over the last 2 years has licked its wounds, altered it battle plan and is now attacking again, for a third time, in as many years. The tactical command, the parish council, is recruiting now. Your task, should you decide to accept this mission, is to make your objections known to the planning authority. Suitable ammunition has been arranged, and all you need to do is phone this number, Barnsley 740997, and speak to Richard. Leave your name and address, and a letter will be prepared for you to sign. That’s it. We will fire this ammunition at the allies of the monster warehouse, the planning authority. We hope this time around to send in more than the two hundred and twenty five objections that were raised last time. We will continue to fight this monster until it either goes away permanently or an acceptable plan materialises in its place. The objections.
The development goes against advice in the Supplementary Planning Guide 23, which states that “Speculative proposals for B8 developments are not normally allowed, as no indication of number or type of jobs can be certain.”. The numbers of jobs that will be created in the proposal are not fact. As there is no current buyer, and the application is for a speculative build it is impossible to verify . Better use could be made of the land to provide realistic job opportunities for the surrounding area contrary there are enough empty warehouses currently on the industrial estate. There are empty warehouses in Hoyland (Yes the big one on the parkway that caused all the controversy last year), there are more further down the parkway including another enormous one. Where are the companies to fill these? They have been empty since they were built. There are already complaints of noise nuisance from the industrial estate, from units that are not supposed to be 24 hour when they were granted planning permission. This application has a proposed 24-hour and 7 days a week use and this would cause a severe noise nuisance from operations and traffic entering and leaving the site. The noise would be heard throughout the village due to its elevated position. Drainage of the site is a concern also. If this area is covered with warehouses and tarmac, where will the water go? Not uphill, we are certain of that. Recent Storms saw the houses at the bottom of Lidgett Lane flooded, New road under 3 feet of water and saw the manholes along Colliery Yard lifted as the water poured from the industrial estate. All the water from the site still takes this path! The felling of woodland will greatly impact the wildlife and aquatic environment within and around the surrounding area; including protected species. This woodland has taken 20 years to get to the level of cover. The proposal claims that the woodland is diseased and decaying, it paints a picture that it would be better to remove it and start again than leave it. However I would counter this argument by saying that woodland has grown and died and decayed for hundreds of thousands of years, this is natural. Architectural materials, design and colour are not sympathetic to the surrounding area, which is designated land of ‘Borough landscape value,’ and Greenbelt. The previous applications has the units painted Blue, this one is painted green. Whatever the colour, its still a huge metallic box, a huge blot on our landscape |
