What happens to mail?
CAN I ask why, when we pay so much for postage these days, letters posted in Hull either do not arrive or arrive damaged?
Two birthday cards to my granddaughter never arrived, a letter to the DVLA never arrived and two letters to an Essex address arrived late, both had been opened.
Someone must know something, or am I just unlucky?
Susan Turnnidge.
WITH reference to the thread on the development of East Carr fields started by Councillor Craker (Mail, November 17), I would like to comment on the failure to properly consult by Hull City Council with regard to this proposed site for up to 800 houses, on a Greenfield site which they began planning in 2014.
Due to a total lack of consultation, it was not until July this year that hundreds of local residents who will be directly affected by the huge development, which in essence is Kingswood Mk 2, were made aware of the fact that the land had been designated for building. The information being received in ward letters from Councillor Craker and Councillor Healand.
Both councillors asked for ward members views, as did local MP
Karl Turner. The result was that, within days, they had between them received over 1,000 complaints and objections, a Facebook page entitled “Save East Carr fields” received
2,200 messages of support, a council-run portal had 90 objections and the council complaints department has also received many more complaints.
Unfortunately, by July 2020, the council had long since slipped this development through unseen and unopposed without a single local resident being consulted or informed and, therefore, no objections being registered. The principle to build was granted and cannot now be overturned.
In 1995, Hull City Council itself emphatically rejected a proposal by a local builder to build 350 houses on the same site using the same two small unsuitable entry roads.
The council’s rejection document stating, among other things, that the entry roads were unacceptable and inadequate to serve 350 homes and that one did not even meet highway standards.
Fast forward 25 years to today and now the council have decided they themselves want to build more than double the number of homes on site, with car ownership and expected traffic levels probably doubled since 1995, all their own previous objections have simply evaporated. This time the two formerly unacceptable inadequate small roads – one currently a small quiet cul de sac the other no more than a farm track – are deemed more than adequate to serve the 800-home development.
The council’s only defence is “We put a notice on a lamppost and in the Mail in 2016”, utter nonsense, sheer hypocrisy, and non-existent public relations.
Well done, Hull City Council, you have angered and marginalised a whole city ward with your arrogant approach to planning.