PLANNING COMMENT FOR APPLICATION REF:  5/2025/1875

Thomas Degris

90 Osprey Drive
AL40LU St Albans

Object to Proposal

A footpath is planned between 86 and 98 houses in Osprey drive. There are protected trees in this area. How many of these trees will you need to remove? How big is the footpath going to be? What about bicycles?

The intersection between Sandpit Lane and Beechwood Avenue is already a traffic bottleneck. These new constructions will add significant additional traffic on the junction. Yet, nothing seems to be planned to improve this. What does the application propose to not make things worse?

The existing Oakland Grange constructions have an emergency access road which makes no sense whatsoever. Yet, an additional nonsensical emergency access with no connection to existing junction will be built. Cannot this be improved?

The application does mention a connection from Eagle Way to Central Drive and Oakwood Drive. Yet, such a connection for pedestrians or cyclists still does not exist after several years of planning. The new constructions will likely also be disconnected as Oakland Grange is from the Beaumont/Fleetville community, wasting time for students, commuters, … How can this be fixed?