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Northwest Link Road Routes Blight Village Homes

February 6, 2010 12:30 PM

Richard Burt today slammed Worcestershire County Council for publishing alternative routes for the City's Northwest Link Road on their website half way through their consultation process and naming houses close to the route that would suffer from noise pollution and other disturbances.

Richard, who has already heavily criticised local councils over mass housing plans, said that naming properties along the two outline routes could blight homes even though there was no prospect of the road being built.

"This is just one more example of the shambolic consultation process being conducted by local councils on mass housing and transportation," said Mr Burt.

"The scoping report on the Northwest Link Road was commissioned by the County Council and published in April last year, but has only recently been put on the County Council website.

"The Northwest Link Road comes with multi-million pound price tag and no prospect of being built in the foreseeable future.

Why on earth then, publish details about individual houses and businesses when there is no prospect of either route being built, leaving local residents with the real prospect of planning blight.

"Surely residents in Broadheath and Hallow should expect a bit more sensitivity from the County Council about the effects of what they are doing than this?"

http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/cms/pdf/North%20West%20Link%20Road%20Scoping%20Report.pdf

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