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To: Traffic Commissioner
STOP the Goods Vehicle Operator’s Licence in Station Road Bricketwood
Please sign this petition to object to the application by a new owner/occupier of theTravis Perkins site for a new Goods Vehicle Operators Licence (Notice ID: 10874506). This will increase the number of heavy goods vehicles using the site from the currently permitted [four] to 12 plus six trailers.
The application should be refused on the following grounds:
1) Bricket Wood Railway Goods Yard is on a very narrow residential street within a small village and was built in 1954 when traffic was much less than it is today.
2) The roads in the immediate vicinity are considered as ‘Country Lanes’ and are not suitable by any means to carry vehicles of the sizes, weight, loads etc. within the application.
3) The increased use will result in damage to local roads, increased pollution impacting residents’ health, and risking the safety of pedestrians including pupils of local schools.
4) Using the site which is technically a green belt site for industrial usage and private owner financial benefit
The application should be refused on the following grounds:
1) Bricket Wood Railway Goods Yard is on a very narrow residential street within a small village and was built in 1954 when traffic was much less than it is today.
2) The roads in the immediate vicinity are considered as ‘Country Lanes’ and are not suitable by any means to carry vehicles of the sizes, weight, loads etc. within the application.
3) The increased use will result in damage to local roads, increased pollution impacting residents’ health, and risking the safety of pedestrians including pupils of local schools.
4) Using the site which is technically a green belt site for industrial usage and private owner financial benefit
Why is this important?
Why is this important?
1) Environmentally, Bricketwood is already suffocating from road traffic pollution from the surrounding motorways and A roads.
2) Residents in this small village cannot and should not be subjected to any further impact by the addition of 12 heavy goods vehicles plus 6 heavy goods trailers continuously entering and exiting the site multiple times every day via all connecting local village streets and roads.
3) The applicant should find a site specifically built and managed accordingly and suitable for there business operating needs, ideally being located within a business park or industrial estate from which other similar businesses operate and of which were built solely to accommodate such vehicle use and business operations as the applicant provides.
4) If the site is to be developed and or used, it must be used solely for the provision of new housing, though officially the site is registered as a green belt site and as such should be left empty. If not, then the only consideration of use must be for new housing, enabling inner London home owners and or first time buyers to move out and enjoy village life, without the daily pounding of heavy goods vehicles on our streets.
5) Many people walk to the local school of which already, the pavements are not wide enough and on many occasions pedestrians are forced to actually walk in the roads to pass others also on foot and especially more so now with COVID!
6) Increased numbers of heavy vehicles will create additional noise and vibration for residents and will set off car alarms as lorries thunder pass and potential damage to building.
7) Station road (the road in which these vehicles would be operating from), has a public foot path on just one side as the other side is woodland. This endangers pedestrians and motorists on the on coming opposite Lane, when heavy goods vehicles such as in the application, have to drive over the centre white lines (as the existing roads are no wide enough), simply to get to to link roads.
8) There is a small bridge also on Station Road with a low height restriction. The bridge is positioned on what is a very sharp bend (90 degree corner and blind spot), which these large vehicles cannot maneuver around without crossing the centre white lines, causing a possible fatal accident with an either an on coming vehicle on the opposite side and or a pedestrian.
9) The amount of vehicles within the application are approximately 6 times as many as operated by the previous site users. Not only 6 times more, but will probably access the site 2 to 3 times every day, creating 54 individual heavy goods vehicles up and down our residential roads every day, 7 days a week from 6.30 in the morning to 18.30. This is unacceptable.
Please sign so this can be stopped immediately
1) Environmentally, Bricketwood is already suffocating from road traffic pollution from the surrounding motorways and A roads.
2) Residents in this small village cannot and should not be subjected to any further impact by the addition of 12 heavy goods vehicles plus 6 heavy goods trailers continuously entering and exiting the site multiple times every day via all connecting local village streets and roads.
3) The applicant should find a site specifically built and managed accordingly and suitable for there business operating needs, ideally being located within a business park or industrial estate from which other similar businesses operate and of which were built solely to accommodate such vehicle use and business operations as the applicant provides.
4) If the site is to be developed and or used, it must be used solely for the provision of new housing, though officially the site is registered as a green belt site and as such should be left empty. If not, then the only consideration of use must be for new housing, enabling inner London home owners and or first time buyers to move out and enjoy village life, without the daily pounding of heavy goods vehicles on our streets.
5) Many people walk to the local school of which already, the pavements are not wide enough and on many occasions pedestrians are forced to actually walk in the roads to pass others also on foot and especially more so now with COVID!
6) Increased numbers of heavy vehicles will create additional noise and vibration for residents and will set off car alarms as lorries thunder pass and potential damage to building.
7) Station road (the road in which these vehicles would be operating from), has a public foot path on just one side as the other side is woodland. This endangers pedestrians and motorists on the on coming opposite Lane, when heavy goods vehicles such as in the application, have to drive over the centre white lines (as the existing roads are no wide enough), simply to get to to link roads.
8) There is a small bridge also on Station Road with a low height restriction. The bridge is positioned on what is a very sharp bend (90 degree corner and blind spot), which these large vehicles cannot maneuver around without crossing the centre white lines, causing a possible fatal accident with an either an on coming vehicle on the opposite side and or a pedestrian.
9) The amount of vehicles within the application are approximately 6 times as many as operated by the previous site users. Not only 6 times more, but will probably access the site 2 to 3 times every day, creating 54 individual heavy goods vehicles up and down our residential roads every day, 7 days a week from 6.30 in the morning to 18.30. This is unacceptable.
Please sign so this can be stopped immediately
