The Relief Roads will have a terrible effect on the following
sites: Kepier & Frankland Woods, Low Newton Nature Reserve
& the River Browney Valley.
• The Relief Roads will destroy & affect the beautiful
woodland, Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Low Newton,
nature/history – mining, quarrying, railway, and Beaurepaire
& Neville’s Cross Battle site. Destroy & ruin green
spaces for humans & habitats for wild life that will be
devastated and/or affected forever by the roads.
• The potential for infill building, houses/industrial sites
along the Relief Roads route ending village & suburban areas.
In time this will result in considerably more traffic, more
congestion, and so more air pollution.
• The Relief Roads will reduce trade in Durham City Centre. It
has been demonstrated that roads which are justified on the basis
of economic growth rarely deliver it. In this case, it seems likely
that the roads will facilitate travel to the out-of-town shopping
centres at the expense of the city centre, thus starving it of
investment. This process has taken place in many of County
Durham’s towns.
• That the Relief Roads are not needed, well below national
average for traffic congestion compared to other cities. The Relief
Roads will create air & noise pollution in the villages &
suburban areas.
• The cost - £100 million budget for the Relief Roads
which will rise exponentially due to old mining works & other
issues contractors come across (use the Thinford overspend as an
example). I would rather the money would be spent on new schools,
improving front line social care, and improved sustainable
transport to alleviate any traffic problems
• Moving some relatively minor issues of twice daily traffic
build up that lasts for 15 to 30 minutes a day to the villages
& suburban areas that do not have the road infrastructure big
enough to cope.
This ePetition ran from 29/01/2019 to 07/03/2019 and has now finished.
342 people signed this ePetition.