Representation by Miss Diane Marie Moulster
- Date submitted
- 13 June 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Expansion of the airport will destroy parkland (Wigmore Valley Park, causing a loss to natural habitat, home to varied flora and fauna will cease to exist. It will cause planted roundabouts to be replaced with traffic lights. (The plan includes 1,152,000m2 of vegetation clearance and 82,000m2 of mature tree clearance in not only Wigmore Park but adjoining fields, hedgerows, roundabouts and grass verges) Part of the proposed changes go against the Local Plan (Eaton Green Road, Wigmore Lane, Crawley Green Road and Ashcroft Road will become the primary access routes to Terminal 2 from the east using a new link road that breaches the Luton Local Plan that actually bans this link road) It will cause an increase in the number of cars on the road, leading to severe congestion and air pollution. It will make the Wigmore Estate virtually impossible to leave with increased traffic having to negotiate 4 proposed new sets of traffic lights at existing and new road junctions within Wigmore and Vauxhall Park Estate. Increased flights will cause air pollution and noise pollution and potentially make sitting out in the garden a horrendous experience (think being in Stockwood Park with flights going directly overhead every few minutes). It has the potential for noise disruption to two local primary schools, along with access to those schools made more difficult and dangerous by faster roads with more traffic on them and additional air pollution from the roads and the airport for the pupils while in school or out in their playgrounds/playing fields.