(Double click on image to read text)With apologies to the Rothwell Record, the above article appeared in the August 2010 issue.
The article reports that 555 acres of land is up for sale on our side of the M62, suitable for residential, commercial, or leisure purposes. This land has been on the market before and the huge development then proposed for the site was rejected following substantial opposition.
Having failed once you can rest assured that significant expenditure, and lobbying, will now be going into trying to secure planning consent.
Anyone feeling really strongly about this land going for development should lobby their councillors, and MP. LAWRRAG is about 'traffic', and in this respect the potential traffic impact upon the area would be massive.
It might be considered far too early in the day to be getting concerned about this 555 acres being developed, but the issue is that the more we let the smaller developments within the area go through unchallenged, then the harder it is for any action to be taken about increase car, or HGV volumes, when something like this starts to get off the ground.
The situation is significantly worse than it was 6 years ago, and we've seen how concerned the councillors and the council are about it!
