Showground Concerns

Peterborough Telegraph

Peterborough Councillor Nicola Day voices her concern at consultation with residents about the East of England Showground plans and her worries about unresolved issues about traffic access

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00:00I'm Councillor Nicola Day. I was here today representing Alton Waterville residents from the ward.

00:06I've been running regular meetings because they did feel that they weren't consulted really, really regularly.

00:13I know AEPG and the applicant were making suggestions that they were but actually there were small consultations going on

00:20but there wasn't a big open public consultation that everybody knew about that they could go to.

00:24So I set that up myself. I've worked diligently with residents since July this year

00:29and we're pleased 650 didn't go through. We're concerned about the 850 but it doesn't feel as harsh a blow as 1500 homes

00:37plus all that leisure with the multi-storey car park, the conference facilities, the leisure activities.

00:44We just felt, and as was just shown in the committee meeting today, there is still outstanding issues with access

00:50and access absolutely should have been mitigated and been really clear about what was happening in terms of access

00:58today at this meeting and I really drove that point home and it was something that residents were very concerned about.

01:03So, mixed feelings.

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