Sample Objection Letter
There's no need to use all the reasons, 3 is enough and if possible use you own words. Remember to add
your name and postal address.
To:
Paul Pennicott
Development Control Manager
Portland House
Richmond Road
Worthing.
Dear Sir.
WB/09/0146/ARM Tesco Supermarket.
Please accept this letter as my formal objection to the above application.
Amongst my reasons for objecting are the following:
1. Durrington doesn't need a store of this size. An extension to the existing one, as approved on WB/04/00686/FULL, is all that's needed.
2. Worthing town center is slowly dying. The last thing it needs after the parking grief and credit crunch is a Tesco Extra with free parking only 4 miles away to attract what's left of the shoppers.
3. Government policy is to achieve a reduction in
Co2 emissions.
This store will encourage shoppers to make longer journeys by car thus
increasing emissions.
4. The size of the store will attract extra traffic into a residential area already suffering from
to much traffic.
5. The store will be built in a Greenfield location. This location forms part of an area of high conservation value.
6. The area is prone to flooding and should remain undeveloped and left to act as a natural
soak-away..
7. The area is of high cultural history importance being the possible site of a Roman Villa and the most likely area for the Roman settlement and road.
8. The development is in conflict with Government objectives of reducing road traffic as required by the Traffic Reduction Act. Even at present
levels, traffic is giving residents in Durrington grief; any further increase is completely out of the question.
9. The visual impact of the supermarket when viewed from the South Down National Park only half a miles is a disgrace. It is totally inappropriate for an area of such high cultural history importance and landscape value.
10. As the store will operate 24hrs a day and is accessed via roads that pass through residential areas, residents will get very little sleep and suffer lost of peace and quiet and amenity.
11. As the existing petrol station will nearly double in size and is already a pollution hot spot, the increased health risks are unacceptable.
12.As the planning of the Tesco Extra store and the West Durrington Urban Extension were uncoordinated this has created muddled access, design and public transport arrangements. The application should not be approved until a sustainable mobility and natural environment policy has been worked out.
13. The location of the store makes it difficult for shoppers on foot to access it compared to the existing store. From properties to the east, shoppers carrying heavy bags will have an extra 200 meters to walk and this mostly through maneuvering vehicles in the car park of face an illogical bus journey.
14. Since the development control committee granted outline planning approval, subject to reserved matters, in March 2006 much has changed. The government have introduced stricter legislation on Co2 emissions, building regulations, flood prevention, environmental protection, noise, transport etc. That 2006 and the subsequent planning decision should be withdrawn and Tesco submit a fresh application if they want to proceed.
15. Titnore Lane and Titnore Way are not suitable for the dozens of maximum weight lorry's that will delivering construction materials each day to the building sites for proberly 5 years.
16. Titnore Way is a residential street and not suitable for Tesco maximum weight juggernauts to rumble past day and night.
17. My property will back on to this new Tesco and I'm very concerned to hear that the exhaust from their heat and power generator will be working day and night. I know due to my work that these plants emit poisonous fumes and irritating deep monotonous hum.
18. I'm sure if the councilors who had approved
the outline permission, subject to reserved matters, in March 2006 had known of
the vast numbers of juggernauts that would be using Titnore Lane and Titnore Way
for five years during construction work on the 2 sites, they might well have
opposed the application. That outline permission must be set-aside and the
application process restarted.
Yours sincerely