Representation by Angela Loynes
- Date submitted
- 6 November 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
As the main entry point to the East Anglia from the rest of the country the A47 already is a high congestion point. You only have to listen to any traffic report on national and local radio to hear congestion or accident on the A47 at the Elm Hall or Cromwell Rd island, Guyhirn juction. The tailback and pollution is horrendous already. The diversions are small villages with terrible road structurr / damage already. Why would a consideration to add further heavy goods lorries to this problem be considered. The fumes around the area of all already snarled traffic is bad add more especially near a large school and areas that are suppose to entice people to an area of beauty being the east of Anglia and the broads appears to financial suicide to small companies with those areas, tourists will look else where, lots of areas have an iconic construction at their gateway's, Angel of the North, Hadrains wall and the proposal of a massive incinerator is ours! Wild life will continue to be subject to road kill even larger volumes than now. Stop this now people will suffer financially,stress wise and health wise. Animals and birds will suffer too. The roads will continue to cave in but even more have you driven down the A47 and the entrance to the proposed site it resembles the surface of the moon always as the sub structure can't cope. When the a47 is shut due to accidents the surrounding villages become the diversions - Guyhirn. Murrow, Parson Drove and through Black Drove. How will medway ensure that their lorries don't do the same.