To: Greg Clarke MP - Secretary of State for DCLG
Human Heath should be protected in Planning Policy
Recognise the plight of local people who can be so seriously adversely affected in the desperate bid to build homes at any cost to the environment and individuals health. My wife (post double lung transplant) has been seriously affected by a nearby site of 85 houses and another site that proposes to surround us will also have a detrimental affect with no possible escape as we will be in the centre of the new site. We are repeatedly told that her health IS NOT a material consideration. Change Planning Policy to protect respiratory, immunocompromised, disabled and all vulnerable persons likely to be affected by big construction projects.Ecology and Wildlife have considerable measures in place and it is bizarre that a human's health does not have the same protection!
Why is this important?
My wife had a double lung transplant in April 2014 as she was born with Cystic Fibrosis and had months to live without such an a gift of life. Since Summer 2014 we and local residents have been fighting plans to build another 25 houses around our property on old allotments ground. The applications are flawed in many ways and have objections from County Highways Authority. Due to Highways objections it also proposes changes to our property by taking a small proportion of our land and changing our parking from the front to the rear which we have already refused when offered. None of the legalities have been addressed by the applicants, despite repeated requests. Whilst we consider the application to be invalid due to lack of legalities and missing/inaccurate information the Planning Case Officer sees no merit in refusing permission, suggesting it is not invalid! We have now been stuck in a position for nearly two years where our future is being held by many other parties and not ourselves. We cannot even market our property should we wish to due to the lack of legal agreements. In the meantime during 2015 a nearby site of 85 houses has had a serious effect on her health with the huge amounts of dust contributing to her contracting Aspergillosis and losing over 30% of her new donor lungs! See this blog for more information: https://protectrespiratoryandvulnerablepatients.wordpress.com/
