Green Councillors have sent in their submissions to the Public Inquiry into the Centros development. Cllr Chris Coates said ” With shops closing in the City almost every week it is even more important that this massive shopping development is defeated.”
Councillors representing wards across the City have argued that:
- The development will damage retailing in Lancaster City centre, Morecambe and Carnforth.
- The job creation claims are not credible and do not take into account job loss amongst existing retail and service sectors of the local economy.
- It will generate significant amounts of extra traffic on an already congested highway system and the proposed highway measures do not deliver a fundamental solution and will add to the volume of rat-running and environmentally damaging traffic impacts on Derwent Rd and Ullswater Rd.
- The proposals will worsen air quality and add to the health problems of local residents in direct contravention of European and Uk requirements to improve air quality to protect health.
- It is contrary to planning policy at national level and to the Lancaster Local Plan
- The applications will result in a development that will generate considerable amounts of extra greenhouse gases and this is inconsistent with Planning Policy Supplement PPS1 “Planning and Climate Change” and the binding CO2 reductions in the Climate Change Bill currently completing its parliamentary progress.
For the Full details of the objections to the scheme see;public-inquiry-canal-corridor-objection-march-2009.pdf
