EVERY councillor representing the interests of the Selby district electorate should take time out to stand for one day – at least – inside the curve of the railway embankment that will form one of the enclosing walls of the Selby 'ghetto' that is the Olympia Park housing planning proposal.
Yes, the embankment is curved! And that means the nearside steel flanges of loco-wheels fight against an unbending steel rail, a fight that can occur several times during sleeping hours.
After a few minutes of having such a banshee-wailing nois
e focused directly at you by the curvature, your disorientation will lead you to believe you have woken up on the devil's doorstep! This is the hell on Earth an unprofessional and solely profit-oriented planning proposal can foist on an unsuspecting community, a community that will eventually have to pay a great price for the human costs arising.
Every health and safety officer, environmental officer, local government noise abatement officer and any other interested parties the area can produce should accept the same opportunity, and each should bring along their meters with the purpose of taking and recording actual readings, while staying for a little longer than a day.
It's certain the principals behind the projected planning application will be aware the presentation of authenticated readings of such a nature to the independent public enquiry that will be demanded will lead to their application being denied. So, it's bound to become a considerable waste of money for Bellway Homes and BOCM if they do what common sense suggests they don't do, that's carry on with an expensive but worthless planning application for such a hellish and inhumane housing proposal.
Ian Hinchey, Ousebank, Selby
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