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Keep Louth Special’s submission to the Sainsbury planning application
June 2009
To Michelle Walker, ELDC. Planning application no. N-105-01192-09 Keep Louth Special is strongly opposed to the above planning application for the following reasons: The proposed site is not suitable for a supermarket; access, both for delivery lorries and for customers is quite inadequate. James Street/Eve Street are at present severely disrupted by the large vehicles going daily to the Co-op and a further supermarket could only compound the situation. Broadbank, Northgate and Charles Street are already frequently congested and any increase in cars would severely affect the quality of life for those living in the streets around the site. The parking provision proposed is inadequate and in addition the loss of the long-term car park on the north side of the river would be completely unacceptable. Rather than increase the use of Louth for shopping, as envisaged by the applicants, it could have the opposite effect. With both the Co-op and Morrison’s (when it comes on-stream) plus all the other small shops, Louth is well provided for food shopping. In addition there is the Queen Street site, another 12,000 square feet in the pipe-line. Were this application to go ahead shopping floor space would be more than originally suggested in the Farrell Bass Pritchard Report, a report the accuracy of which was, in any case, questionable. The suggestion of job creation must be discounted as no thought has been given to the knock-on effects on jobs lost in the local economy. In conclusion we can only regret this application which we feel is a very misguided one that, were it to be approved, would have very serious effects on the town as a whole. Traffic chaos would call for demolitions and generally a re-jigging of the centre. We feel we must keep stressing the huge value both economically and in human terms of market towns like Louth. They are in grave danger unless extreme vigilance is exercised by the authorities. On planning grounds alone we feel the above application should be dismissed. Rosemary Lindop Keep Louth Special
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