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Good afternoon,
I am contacting you again with my concerns about ongoing applications for a McDonalds to be built on the very busy and heavily trafficked B6020 Lane End/Urban
Road Kirkby in Ashfield. The road is evermore busy and residents from Millers
Way, Erewash St.,Lime St. and Lindleys Lane and road users from
Aldi, Council Offices, Ada Lovelace building and Police headquarters are finding it increasingly dangerous and difficult to access the main road .
There are senior citizens trying to access the facilities in the Forever Green building. Aldi has trucks and a high volume of traffic continuously accessing the main road at all hours.
There is the added concern of fire tenders needing urgent passage along the road to reach all parts of Kirkby, I have very real concerns that a tender fully filled with water would simply plough into concealed traffic round the bend just over the railway bridge or just unable to pass frequent queues of traffic that occur frequently. Similarly ambulances would be hampered and the Police need access constantly for urgent calls as they serve Sutton in Ashfield and the A 38 and the M1 which have frequent police presence requirements . On occasion the centre of Kirkby is gridlocked due to closures on these roads.
I know all of this as I have lived here for 35 years and have witnessed the steep rise in volume of a traffic and hear the constant sirens from where I live. The rise of very large lorries has risen steeply and the road is really challenged to accommodate this volume of traffic without further adding to the problem with yet more traffic, including large delivery lorries and cars to the already worrying problem. Not to mention pedestrians who would be at risk and a crossing would actually exacerbate the problem of traffic flow.
I can see no benefit at all in hampering the passage of vital services and endangering residents trying to gain access to the main road and I have personal experience of this. I have been told that a study has been undertaken of the traffic but am reluctant to be confident that it would have been carried out at all times of the day for at least a week knowing as I do what itÂ’s like trying to access the road myself. I am waiting for an accident to occur soon and dread it. There has been a serious accident all ready where y a young woman was trapped in a car accessing the main road from Lindleys Lane, she was trapped for an hour and two Fire Engines attended plus police. I saw that myself and provided photographs to you in my last email to you. A boy was hit after leaving a bus at the bus stop at the end of Lime street.
I cannot see any benefit to the community in endangering the public, causing more problems on an all ready very busy and dangerous road and hampering the safe passage of Emergency services to its residents and surrounding areas for the sake of raising revenue from a multinational fast food takeaway.
There are more sensible places to build a McDonalds, for instance near the Apprenticeship college near Sutton Parkway where the footfall and age group for McDonalds to ply their wares is huge, they have no facilities at the college the students walk to a shop near
Sutton Junction and the new development that is beginning opposite the college would also provide many customers and possibly a suitable position in site of the development and station.
I was heartened when the application was disallowed before and I beg you to consider the safety of the people of Kirkby now over revenue. The other takeaways are reliant on customers and may lose their livelihood and there are plenty of them that have been serving the community, sometimes for a long time and multicultural in ethnicity which is a good thing in the day and age of inclusivity.
Cynthia Page.