Representation by AWSM Farming Ltd (Adam Metcalfe) (AWSM Farming Ltd (Adam Metcalfe) )
- Date submitted
- 25 August 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I am writing on behalf of AWSM Farming Ltd (Adam Metcalfe) to provide his comments on the Stephen Bank to Carkin Moor proposal. AWSM Farming Ltd is a farming, machinery hire and agricultural contracting service based at (Redacted), Hutton Magna. As part of their business, they undertake agricultural operations on land to the south of the A66, in-between Newsham and Dalton. Due to narrow lanes and bridges, access to these fields with large agricultural machinery is only possible off the A66 through Browson Bank. The current plans show that access to Browson Bank will only be available from the east. Therefore, in order to access Browson Bank, agricultural machinery from Lanehead Farm will need to travel from the junction at Smallways along the A66 east to the new junction at Mainsgill and then come back along the new service road. This will be a distance of approximately 5.92 miles. In addition, when returning to Lanehead Farm, machinery will need to travel east to Mainsgill then back along the A66 to Smallways. There will be significant additional fuel and time costs associated with this extra travel time. The presence of agricultural machinery on the road will also cause congestion issues for the new road. Mr Metcalf’s preference is for a new additional access road to be created to connect the Browson Bank service road to the A66 junction at Smallways to the west. This will allow all traffic from the Browson Bank service road to travel west and join the A66 at Smallways and mean that all agricultural machinery does not need to go on the A66. By linking the Browson Bank service road with the Smallways junction, it would benefit the residential properties at Browson Bank as well as any traffic heading west from Dick Scot Lane, Old Dunsa Bank, Waitlands Lane and West Layton. This is because, traffic from all these areas would not need to travel east back to Mainsgill in order to travel westwards. An alternative option would be to create a new slip road at Browson Bank onto the A66 to allow traffic to travel to the west. This will at least cut the return journey to (Redacted) by not requiring travel back to Mainsgill. It would also benefit the residential properties as outlined above.