FORMER Mayor of Warrington Geoff Settle has issued a final plea to residents who want to submit evidence or comments ahead of the new Peel Hall public inquiry.

An appeal against Warrington Borough Council’s decision to refuse Satnam’s 1,200-home masterplan for the Houghton Green site was dismissed by the Planning Inspectorate and secretary of state in December 2018.

However, the decision was quashed in the High Court last year – meaning the inquiry must be held again.

The fresh inquiry is set to take place on June 9.

Mr Settle has urged people to write to the inquiry inspector before tomorrow, Friday.

He has submitted eight pages for the inspector to consider.

“Satnam have tried and failed numerous times for the last thirty years to lay a single brick on Peel Hall, this must be a planning record for Warrington,” he said.

“The land they purchased all those years ago was never seen as being suitable for development, yet they have persisted and tried every trick in the book.

“The latest planning application went to the High Court and was batted back to a second inquiry despite the developers not satisfying the need to produce highway and pollution data.

“However, the public must make their responses by this Friday, March 13.

“Planning can get complicated at times as I have witnessed during my four years on the planning committee when I was a councillor, but I’ve never known anything like this. Thirty years must be a Warrington record.

“There are several things that still confuse and annoy me.

“Why are Satnam’s plans embedded in the draft local plan?

“As someone who lives less only a kilometre from the proposed site and an asthmatic, I find it incredible that people will live so close to the M62 and that so much traffic will be channelled onto the narrow Delph Lane.”

He also expressed fears over traffic being directed onto Winwick road and Poplars Avenue.

Satnam did not wish to comment.

Anyone who wants to submit comments or evidence could should e-mail helen.skinner@planninginspectorate.gov.uk – quoting the reference APP/M0655/W/17/3178530 before tomorrow.