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question about site access

anrinn4 · 2019-08-03 15:36:26

Planning permission was granted last year for a building extension to a sports facility that is on council land, the applicants are two clubs who got funds from a local grant scheme. The council issued a letter of consent as landowner and the clubs will pay for the extension. No objections were submitted, local residents…

03-08-2019 3:36pm

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Planning permission was granted last year for a building extension to a sports facility that is on council land, the applicants are two clubs who got funds from a local grant scheme. The council issued a letter of consent as landowner and the clubs will pay for the extension. No objections were submitted, local residents have no issue with the extension being built.

Builder went to start work and dropped in a letter to some residents to say access to the construction site will be along road xxxx - cutting through an established housing estate. The letter was dropped in the night before work started. Residents are determined that they are not going to allow construction traffic in to the estate.

The project is estimated to take 8 months to complete. This means putting in a temporary footpath to replace one that will be part of the building site, and construction traffic coming in and out along the housing estate road (distance approx 130m). This road has a 3.5T limit sign at the entrance.

Local residents do not want construction traffic coming through the estate. Builder says there is no other option, but has stopped work (they had removed some fencing and left materials on the site, then put up temporary fencing tied with string.)

No traffic management plan was part of the application and local residents had no idea that access would be through their estate, the assumption was access would be from the facility's car park and through the big gates that are used for the tractor to access the field part of the facility (this is also where the company who did all the soil testing work entered the field).

Concerns have been given to builder and to council's enforcement dept.

There doesn't appear to be any requirement for planning applications to have a traffic management plan included with the application (if there was there would have been loads of objections!).

The builder told residents that the soil on the site is contaminated and this soil will be distributed back within the site, as they don't have the funds to remove it/deal with it; they're on a very tight budget.

Anyone come across a situation like this? To me there is a conflict of interest, as the council granted the permission and as landowner will collect rent from the clubs when the extension is built.

Is there anything about construction traffic using housing estate roads to access a site? The estate is a mixture of council and privately owned houses.

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