Latest News Update- 13 July 2007

Our Submission to the Welwyn Hatfield Planning Department on behalf of Keep Cuffley Rural was submitted on Tuesday 10 July.

The Parish Council today confirmed that to date around 40 letters have been received by the Planning Department in response to the 4 Tesco Planning Applications.

We need more people to write in.

We have succeeded in discrediting the Traffic Survey contained within the Tesco Transport Statement which accompanied their planning applications.

Tesco have now admitted that the traffic count numbers contained in their submission are incorrect and have commissioned another traffic count.

The traffic survey commissioned on behalf of Keep Cuffley Rural has now been received and confirms conclusively that the Tesco vehicle numbers were significantly below actual traffic levels.

As an example our report over a 12 hour period counted 11,711 vehicles travelling in both directions along Station Road. Tesco report gave only 2,639!

This represents just 22.53% the vehicles our survey counted.

Our Traffic survey has been copied to C J Conway-Chief Planning and Environmental Health Officer, as well as the Herts. Highways Authority and Charles Walker MP.

We have been advised by the Planning Office that the likely date for the Tesco Applications to go before the Planning Committee is Thursday 2 August 2007. This date is evidently not going to change despite the new Tesco submission due sometime next week having a significant impact on the Tesco Traffic analysis.

Keep Cuffley Rural think the public has a right to expect the 21 day review period for planning applications to be inspected by the public be extended to run from the date the new submission is received and available for viewing by the general Public.

We have therefore written today to the Planning Department to inform them that, in our view, not to extend the review period represents a subversion of the democratic process.

Contact has been established with the Traffic Division of the Herts. Police to draw to their attention the dangers to both pedestrians and vehicles of having the Tesco main vehicle entrance within the zigzag lines of the Pelican Crossing. They have also noted with interest our suggestion that delivery vehicles should enter and exit Tesco’s car park from a West to East direction to avoid unnecessary interruption of traffic flow rather than East to West as proposed in the Tesco submission.

We are seeking to find a solution to the Co-op delivery vehicle problem which causes significant traffic congestion in Station Road and Maynards Place.

Our Local MP Charles Walker is being kept informed of developments and is following the progress of Tesco’s planning application closely.

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