Representation by Robert Mitchell
- Date submitted
- 10 November 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The site is alongside a major highway the A47. This road carries traffic from the midlands to the east coast and is a vintage single carriage way on which there are regular fatalities involving lgv's and you are proposing to increase this number by 600 to 1200 vehicle movements per day. The road builds up constant traffic queues every time a pedestrian or cycle uses the elm crossing these cause major jams on the adjacent roundabout onto and out of wisbech and up to 150 vehicles on the cross junction to and from kings lynn and Peterborough. Access will need an upgrade to the A47 in both directions past this site as there is currently no where to hold vehicles entering or leaving the site without stopping fast moving or completely stationary traffic. The adjacent sites have been released for retirement homes meaning a proliferation of elderly persons to mix in with the currently overloaded road system and the additional lgv's. Wisbech is attempting to attract a major hotel plus other economically beneficial developments to the site beside this construction which will almost certainly be lost if it proceeds because of the noise and smells that will emanate during construction and operation. This project needs to be sited in the countryside away from populated areas not on the edge of a town already struggling with outdated roads and the loss of employment plus the influx of large numbers of unemployed persons. Also there are schools housing and food stores and food processing plants surrounding the site therefore any pollution from the site will not have space to disperse before encountering the local population who will also have to cope with the increased rodent population from the close by river banks and fields attracted to the site by the smell of food waste in abundance once the plant is operating. There are numerous sites along the A47 which are less populated and less of a traffic bottleneck yet none of these have been considered because of cost implications of building in open country a project which Medworth claims is of National Importance but not important enough to justify the additional costs!