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Draft Site Allocations and Policies (incorporating IP-One Area Action Plan) Development Plan Document

Representation ID: 57

Received: 16/02/2014

Respondent: Mrs Sue Tunaley

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

We strongly object to a further site at Bramford, having already got West Meadows plus the blot on the landscape which is Landmark House. Why don't you choose a brownfield site closer to the centre of Ipswich e.g. the old bakery site on Norwich Road, rather than a greenfield site beyond your natural boundary?

Full text:

We do not feel that this is a consultation it feels more like a foregone conclusion and that we are being dumped on. There is already a site at West Meadows and like many others we have experience of the issues that brings the area so this one even closer makes us very anxious. I regularly visit Clarice House but will be reluctant to do so as I consider security is likely to be compromised. In addition to these issues I fear it will make our property very difficult to sell. Also, although you state 5 pitches at the moment there can be little doubting that the requirement that Ipswich faces (Ipswich not Bramford) for years 2016-20 will also be met by this same site for after all, all the other potential sites that you have in theory looked at and dismissed as unsuitable will doubtless remain unsuitable for these future requirements. Just as with the West Meadows site this is Ipswich Borough Council placing their provision to the West of the natural boundary made by the A14 bypass where they are out of sight and out of mind except to those who live in Bramford. This is at best sneaky and at worst skulduggery and you should be ashamed.