PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS WILL SWALLOW

BROUGHTON VILLAGE

Broughton Action Group will be holding a meeting at Broughton Community Centre, Brookes Lane on 12 August 2009 at 7pm to discuss the issues below.

Your support is vital to enable us to fight these proposals  and this is your opportunity to air your views.

Did you know that there are plans to make major changes to the greenfield sites surrounding the village?  These changes will affect every resident of Broughton.

Unless residents throughout the village unite and fight these changes the village will cease to exist and will simply be swallowed up by retail, commercial and industrial developments.

• A new interchange is to be built on compulsory purchased land between Kinnerton Park and Lesters Lane later this year which will increase the volume of traffic both in and around the village and bring with it greater traffic noise and pollution. 

• The above changes will almost certainly increase the numbers of drivers who use Broughton Hall Road as a cut through both to and from the A55 and Airbus.

• Proposals have been put forward to build commercial / light industrial units on land opposite Lesters Lane, heading towards Pen y Ffordd, which would cost the village the rural outlook it currently enjoys and bring heavy goods vehicles through the village creating yet more noise pollution.

• Broughton Retail Park development has brought an influx of visitors to the area and this has lead to regular bus routes running through the village. Current planning proposals to expand the Retail Park will only increase the demand for this service.

• Part of the Country Park is to be sacrificed to enable the link road between the Hawarden roundabout and the A55 slip road to the Broughton Retail Park to be widened taking green area from the village and bringing traffic closer to housing.

• Land opposite Carphone Warehouse designated as a green buffer between existing housing and the Broughton Retail Park in the original planning applications for Retail Park is now under threat. Flintshire County Council is proposing its reallocation for housing, however developers intend to lodge planning applications for a fast food outlet, a hotel and an Aldi store. The proposed commercial development of this land shows no regard for the proximity of the site to a housing estate or the disturbance it would cause to neighbouring residents.  

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