As you may know, the application to develop the former cattle market site comes in front of the ERYC strategic planning team on Thursday June 19.
I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the people who have written to me, completed surveys and posted comments via our driffieldcattlemarket.co.uk website.
In total, I have support from more than 1,860 local residents who do not wan
t to see a superstore built on this site.
I have collated a great deal of information into a pack which will be delivered to each of the 15 members of the strategic planning team ahead of the meeting on Thursday.
The pack contains the summary of a residents survey carried out earlier this year, together with many comments made by local people.
I have also asked that they look carefully at matters of planning policy, including all the access issues and safety which have been raised.
Specifically in response to the article quoting Mr Menzies, of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, in respect of measures that make the access route supposedly suitable for HGVs, his comments are not only vague and empty but are also based on data that is incomplete and filled with inaccuracies.
For example, their pedestrian survey around the Dunns Lane/Bridge Street crossing of Eastgate South counted pedestrians in early morning and mid-afternoon (school start and finish times) but failed to do any count during the school lunchbreak!
When we, therefore, addressed their omission by doing our own count, the number of pedestrians counted (mostly school children) was more than doubled.
So - not only are ERYC intent on jeopardising the future of our town but are prepared to push through plans that jeopardise the safety of our children. Thank you Mr Menzies!
Whatever the outcome of Thursday's meeting is, it will not be the last of it.
If the application is rejected, the developers are likely to appeal or to put in another similar plan.
If the application is approved, then that still does not alter the argument that a supermarket on that particular site is fundamentally wrong and we will continue to fight to stop the development plan coming to fruition.
Mark Blakeston, of Manor House, Eastgate South, Driffield, writes by
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