WASBO

Waddington Against Southern Bypass Option

 NEWSLETTER

Second Public

Consultation dates and venues:

Sunday 8 October -

 Waddington Village Hall,

12 noon to 7pm

Monday 9 October -

Bentley Hotel 12 noon to 8pm

Tuesday 10 October -

Redwood Drive Community Centre 12 noon to 8pm

Friday 13 October -

Waterside Centre 9am to 5pm

Saturday 14 October -

Waterside Centre 9am to 5pm

Sunday 15 October -

 Bracebridge Heath Village Hall 12 noon to 4pm

Lobbying activities planned

WASBO representatives plan to attend all the venues while the consultations are running to hold a peaceful and dignified demonstration. We will be handing out leaflets and generally making our feelings known. 

Help Needed!

We need lots of people to join us in order to make our presence felt.  Please try to spare the time to help out.  You can speak to Tom James on 828012 for further details, or just turn up. It is vitally important to our credibility that we make an impact.

Will our views count?

The subject matter is so far unknown to us at WASBO but we believe it may be centred around junction strategy.  No doubt the views of the residents of Waddington will be disregarded again as we are deemed to be biased.

Please try to attend yourselves and urge your friends and colleagues, particularly if they live outside of Waddington, to respond to the LCC’s questionnaire and support us as the opinions of outsiders are considered to be of more relevance.  We anticipate that the questionnaire will be on LCC’s website, as it was for the first consultation.

DISCRETIONARY BLIGHT POLICY “NOT WORTH PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON”

ON Monday 5 September the Lincolnshire County Council met to discuss the discretionary blight paper proposed by Cllr William Webb.

 In order to qualify for the scheme, residents must:

n         Live very close to the new road

n         Have some medical complaint that will be made worse by the work, such as asthma (but not stress)

n         Need to move for reasons of illness, work , family or “external financial pressures”.

n         Have tried to sell for at least 3 months without success - at the devalued price.

and

n         The property is devalued by a minimum of 15%.

Even then, the council will only pay the devalued price, not the original market value.

Conservative Councillor Ray Phillips said “it would be extremely difficult, almost impossible to meet these requirements. ..... I do not think we need to worry about it because it is not going to run into millions of pounds”

Well that just about sums up the LCC’s attitude - there’s no need for them to worry about having to meet the cost of actually implementing this policy because it has been cleverly designed to exclude everyone.

We wait to see if the final wording is changed to be more inclusive.

Surveyor’s opinion

The Lincolnshire Echo recently arranged for Andy Hey of the Lincolnshire branch of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors to visit 44 Station Road, a house that will be right next door to the new road. 

Mr Hey estimated that this particular property would be devalued by 10-12% and in addition, he stated that it is extremely unusual for a property in such circumstances to be devalued by any more than that figure.

No-one will qualify

It would not be possible to be any closer to the road than this house will be, without the building or garden actually being underneath it  -  thereby qualifying for statutory blight.  It would probably be safe therefore to say that no property in Waddington will be devalued by as much as 15% - so no one will qualify for this scheme.

Well done LCC, you’ve pulled a master stroke here!

Chairman’s Letter

You may have read in the Echo in July that LCC are considering moving the line of the proposed Eastern Bypass.  This is because Jesus College, Oxford, who own 950 acres of land at Bracebridge Heath want to build 10,000 new homes and to avoid the road cutting through the middle of this nebulous area of housing there is talk of moving the line of the road.

We find this an outrageous display of double standards.  The LCC are happy to desecrate a long standing community with the Southern Bypass yet are anxious to avoid cutting through a community that has yet to be built!!  The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

This may be the opportunity for the Lincoln Southern Bypass planners to think again. The new Lincoln Eastern Bypass will need to skirt around these houses and meet with the A15 further south. This gives the planners the opportunity to route the Lincoln Southern Bypass around the south of the Waddington airbase. This solution satisfies the council’s own preference to keep any bypass outside the line of development and it will not damage or divide any communities. The Lincolnshire County Council has a great opportunity here -  it remains to be seen if it has the vision to grasp it.

Peter Brier

WASBO Chairman

Towns queuing for bypass

“DOZENS of towns and villages will be blighted indefinitely by rising traffic because the Government has quietly abandoned its promise to build 70 bypasses by the end of the decade” an article in The Times stated recently. Marcham in Oxfordshire has been waiting for its bypass for 70 years with other towns waiting between 13 and 57 years.

In limbo

Couple this information with the news that EMRA (The East Midlands Regional Assembly) has been turned down by the Department of Transport for funding for the dualling of the A46 from Newark to Widmerpool in the latest round of Transport Innovation Funding, makes one wonder just how many years it will be before the LSB will be built.  Meanwhile Waddington is in limbo, the “lucky ones” can move on, everyone else is stuck with it.

NKDC Steps off the Fence - at last!

NKDC Executive Board met on 5 September and recommended the following to the full council:

   1. That the Council support Option 3 or a variant of it unless there is clear evidence that option 3 or a variation of it was not capable of being built technically, or that the level of use would not justify a case for funding.

   2. In the event that a viable Option 3 or variant is not practicable, that the Council support Option 2C. The Council’s support would be conditional of there being a clear assurance that strategies were in place to avoid hardship for those directly affected by the route.

  3. That the Council press for the development of an interim strategy to enable the road network serving the towns and villages to the south of the City to accommodate current and future traffic volumes.

QUIZ NIGHT

Next Quiz Night will be Friday 19 January 2007 7pm at Waddington Village Hall Teams of 8 - £6 per person- includes light finger buffet and bottle of wine per table.  BYO welcome, no bar on site.

For tickets call:

Tom James 828012

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