Get these hands off our city

An eastern outer ring road…let’s do it

The present city council leader and the last want it, the workshop meeting with Corinthian wanted it, Prof Stephen Peckham wants it, the community in Canterbury wants it.

If the South Canterbury scheme is ever approved, it will need it unless we are going to be overcome by fumes and traffic.

In your issue of April 28, you reported that although Cllr Simon Cook is in favour of the road, he said: “However I’m not a transport engineer. I’m sure the professionals did their homework.”

Well Simon ignore them! They have often been wrong.

In the enormous planning application for the site, at first in a two liner, it alleges that there is no plan or justification for the road, but buried in the transport assessment it is revealed that Kent County Council has funding to assess the case for the road. Let’s see the result before we take Mountfield any further.

This is just one of many contradictions and omissions in the application after over three years of work by the city council and the applicant.

It would be completely unsound and at the very least premature, to approve the application, as it is deeply flawed and incomplete.

Among other horrors within it, on top of the hill , above the proposed Ridge Park, they propose a tower block of flats, six storeys high.

That’s 19.9 metres, more than 65ft. It is about 40 metres square(130 feet). Just imagine the damage to the skyline in the city and beyond!

The guidelines in the application for specify a maximum 12m height, or, in “specified sites” 15m, so they have ignored their own constraints.

The city council has wanted to protect views across the city as well.

The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing: too many hands: maybe the wrong hands. Get these hands off our city. Nick Blake Leycroft Close, Canterbury