Send your Peel Hall comments NOW, says ex-Mayor

FORMER Mayor of Warrington Geoff Settle is urging anyone who wants to submit evidence or make comments at the next public inquiry into the controversial Peel Hall housing proposals to email them to the inspector Christina Downes – now.
Deadline is tomorrow (Friday) and Mr Settle has already submitted his own eight page letter to the inspector.
But he stressed, they don’t have to be that long!
Satnam Developments, who have been seeking planning consent for housing on the Peel Hall site at Warrington for years, are again appealing against the refusal of permission.
Mr Settle said: “Satnam have tried and failed numerous times over the last 30 years but have failed to lay a single brick on Peel Hall. This must be a planning record for Warrington. 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, members of the public must make their responses by Friday March 13!
“An inquiry date of June 9th has been set at the Orford Jubilee Hub, where the first one took place after the planning chiefs had refused the planning application because of the lack of highway and pollution data.
“Planning can get complicated at times as I 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? Why did local councillors abstain from voting against this situation? And why have Home England sold Ballater Fields to the developer when Warrington Borough Council were leasing the sports field?
“As someone who lives only a kilometre from the proposed site and is 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, whilst at the Winwick end of the site traffic will be directed onto the already choked A49, Winwick Road and Poplars Avenue.”
Mr Settle said anyone interested in contacting the Inquiry Inspector should email her at [email protected] – quoting the reference APP/M0655/W/17/3178530 by tomorrow (March 13)