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Representation by Joseph Poore

Date submitted
14 September 2021
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

I oppose the construction of the A57 link road for two reasons. Firstly the road runs through fields and more development for road infrastructure the expense of habitat for wildlife is simply unacceptable when we have so many roads already. Secondly because the focus on increasing road area - when we are facing major global warming and other environmental change - yet the lack of focus on cycling infrastructure and more sustainable forms of transport is wrong. Roads have slowly crept up on us and turned our lived environment into one where cars dominate. This was never a choice I made and I wish we had a different world to live in.