Turning into suburban knowledge

9:00am Thursday 14th September 2006

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APPARENTLY, the planning application for the Walton Locks Development has been submitted and the date for any objections has now passed.

Would someone like to explain to me why, as a resident that will directly overlook the proposed seven-storey eyesores, I was not informed of the application, so giving me the chance to object? Is this the latest method for keeping objections to the minimum?

I am not completely against development of the site.

Yes, it would be nice to see the area enhanced in some way, preferably with bungalows and other normal family homes.

But no, I am sorry, it is totally unacceptable to propose a mass of 275 dwellings comprising of both houses and high rise blocks along the picturesque canal side The whole of Warrington is quite literally going upwards.

When will developers and the council realise that we, the current people who live here, are completely sick of it all?

Every inch of our villages and town are being ruined and turned into nothing more than suburban cities.

Our road systems alone can't handle all these mass developments, nor can our dentists, doctors or schools.

Can we please start enhancing our villages and town instead of creating more and more town blight with inappropriate developments and hideous high rise tower blocks, many of which look more like prison blocks than homes?

Also leave a little bit of green space so that we can breathe some fresh air occasionally without having to travel to do it.

Surely that isn't asking too much.

Walton RESIDENT Name and address supplied