Object
Mitcham's Corner Development Framework SPD
Representation ID: 31460
Received: 14/10/2016
Respondent: Mr Richard Black
The document is extremely lengthy, but does not address the need to provide a functional intersection of five major roads critical to effective functioning of the city, the local community, Cambridge residents, and the inner ring. Until and unless an intersection with sufficient capacity is designed and modelled accurately, the rest of the document is premature, manipulative and presumptuous.
The council should not have taken this document to consultation until a working intersection of sufficient capacity was part of the plans. Only once an intersection of sufficient capacity is part of the plans should they be brought for public consultation. Otherwise the danger is that the consultation may falsely give approval to a design which is guaranteed to fail.
In the current climate of poor quality and inadequate proposals from council and city deal, the current premature proposals give the impression that the council are attempting to deliberately manipulate the consultative process to provide skeleton approval to a plan with inadequate space reserved for the necessary intersection, and hence cause further damage to the local economy.
The document is extremely lengthy, but does not address the need to provide a functional intersection of five major roads critical to effective functioning of the city, the local community, Cambridge residents, and the inner ring. Until and unless an intersection with sufficient capacity is designed and modelled accurately, the rest of the document is premature, manipulative and presumptuous.
The council should not have taken this document to consultation until a working intersection of sufficient capacity was part of the plans. Only once an intersection of sufficient capacity is part of the plans should they be brought for public consultation. Otherwise the danger is that the consultation may falsely give approval to a design which is guaranteed to fail.
In the current climate of poor quality and inadequate proposals from council and city deal, the current premature proposals give the impression that the council are attempting to deliberately manipulate the consultative process to provide skeleton approval to a plan with inadequate space reserved for the necessary intersection, and hence cause further damage to the local economy.