Whitehills

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Kensington are again attempting to push for development on the Whitehills site.

Recent changes in government policy have made it all the easier for developers to get permission for new developments and John Coombes, chief executive of Fylde council is on record as saying that “Criticism of developers is not helpful “. Faced with this we need to be increasingly vigilant and make sure that those with the power to make decisions are aware of the strength of feeling that exists in the borough.

On the basis that a picture paints a thousand words we suggest that anyone in favour of building more and more houses on our local flood plain looks at these pictures and then reads the report here.

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This is not the ornamental Japanese lake at Cypress point. It’s the one that appears when it rains heavily and the water has nowhere to run off to.

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This is where a local developer would like to build over a thousand new houses. No doubt the water feature will be a selling point in the brochure - perhaps they could take a picture of a gondolier and call it the Venice of the Fylde?

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What was going through the mind of the pilot of this aircraft as he came in to land at Blackpool Airport over the site of the projected new development.

He or she is probably very aware of the incidence of bird strikes at low altitude and their very serious danger to aircraft.

“Flocks of birds are especially dangerous, and can lead to multiple strikes, and damage, within a very brief period. Depending on the damage, aircraft at low altitudes or during take off and landing often cannot recover in time and crash.” For more information click here

If you are not about to fly away on holiday you might want to look at this video

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A spotter captured the moment when two herons were sucked into a Thomson Fly Boeing 757-200 moments after lift-off from Manchester airport at 9.15 in April 2007. The engine, a Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4, was shut down and the pilot made a successful emergency landing on one engine. The aircraft, with 221 passengers on board, was heading for Arrecife, Lanzarote, when the birds hit the right hand engine, causing a flameout and repeated puffs of black smoke. The pilot declared an emergency and dumped excess fuel before landing at 10.30.

Should developers really be allowed to build under this flight path?

Isn’t criticism of developers who aim to do this valid?

Finally, if you were a developer and the lawn outside your offices looked like this when it rained, do you think you might think twice about building on a flood plain?

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