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[Closed] Developer inconviniences thousands and....

winston · 2018-09-26T10:37:26Z

There is a small development of 5 or 6 'zechootive' homes being built on my commute to work. This is not affordable homes for the masses but 5 bedroom pads for the loaded on a piece of farmland sold off at a massive profit by the farmer and where the developer will be making a fortune too. They have installed temporary traffic lights which seem to be anything but considering they have now been there since first week in August. This wasn't so bad in the school holidays as the traffic was lighter but now it is causing at least a mile tailback and putting 15 mins on my 30 minute journey each way. This might not sound much but if you multiply this by 5 and then by several thousand cars over the day then you get a load of lost working hours, not to mention traffic piling up on tiny rat run roads where previously there was none meaning kids etc have been told not to play in the streets etc (friends live in one of the hamlets affected. Does the developer have to pay any fines for this disruption? If it was a road resurfacing or even a large development of affordable homes I would be far less bothered but it seems very unfair for a private company or individual to make a huge profit whilst costing others time and money........especially as there seems to be no incentive to speed up the work

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kcr

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If you think there's an unreasonable level of disruption to road traffic, lodge a complaint with the council. If enough people complain, they will have to investigate the situation and see if it can be improved.

Posting on a cycling forum is unlikely to make a difference to the problem.

Posted : 27/09/2018 12:12 pm

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