## ALFRETON S. O. S.

# OUTSEATS FARM BUILDING DEVELOPMENT

Ladies and Gentlemen.

I am speaking on behalf of Alfreton S O S who are totally opposed to this proposed development.

Why is Amber Valley BC departing from the Local Development plan? In this plan, Outseats is indicated as a Green Field site. On this alone it can be 'called in" by the secretary of state! A point we intend to follow up.

Amber Valley wants to implement this plan before the Core Strategy is finished. We believe this is because they want as many planning applications approved before the Core strategy and the Localism Act can be brought into force. That will curb, a lot of the rubber-stamping of applications.

A commissioned environmental report ……by a third party is being put forward as gospel. There are flaws. The main one is that there has been no approval by a Government body.

A Health & Safety report says that they have no issues with the site….. Really!.............With an explosives factory just across the road and a school at an exit point.

Amber Valley has not disclosed a 'Predigitial interest' in land that they own and want to build on in Outseats. Again they are departing form proper procedures.

Capita Symonds says the exit roads by the school are 6.75 meters and 6.0meters on Birchwood Road, but they are in fact narrower. What else are they not telling us regarding this build?

Outseats Farm are the only green fields that separate Alfreton from South Normanton………… If this goes ahead then Alfreton will lose its identity. Outseats farm should be preserved for local people. It is the only recreational area on the East side of Alfreton. If Amber valley has their way Ripley, Swanwick, Alfreton & South Normanton will just be one big town.

Capita Symonds Symonds .. Wanting to build on a Green Field site - this plan gives has no consideration for Alfreton or its people. We do need some housing, but let us use empty houses and Brown field sites first. Amber Valley has identified many areas but doesn't appear to want use them. Why are they not listening to the people who elected them? Look what has happened in Ripley…. Despite huge opposition Amber Valley are going ahead with another Supermarket, one that isn't needed.

A roundabout by the station on the Mansfield Road,… on a blind hill,… destroying a business and loosing 10 jobs. The exit from the Industrial estate has been an intolerable situation for local people. Traffic exiting from 3.00 am onwards and continuing all day, every day- imagine the addition of a further 1000 or more cars. Traffic has to go somewhere. Turning right to South Normanton to J28… already a bottleneck. Turning left another bottleneck of parked cars and at GJ's then the Lidl's, roundabout. Another bottleneck.

Exiting into Flowery Leys Lane they pass the Leys junior school… it's dangerous because it is a school entrance and drop off point for children - a serious accident area and a Health &Safety issue.

Further up Flowery Leys Lane is a bottleneck. Vans loading / unloading at a builder's, cars exiting the 'One Stop', lorries making deliveries to it, and the normal traffic on the Nottingham Road. Always busy and a very difficult and hazardous junction.