{"id":658,"date":"2018-06-21T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=658"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:49:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T09:49:51","slug":"letters-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/06\/21\/letters-15\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am an enormous fan of subtext and have been over a number of years. I have been especially impressed by reports on UA92 and much more. This meant I was surprised to see the report on Bailrigg garden village which seemed to lack your usual depth, questions and challenges. Bailrigg garden village has been in the public domain since January 2017 and the ‘issues and options’ drop ins followed Local Plan drop ins in February 2017 and consultations in October 2017. In other words it has been around for rather a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Am puzzled by the housing numbers that you quote since there is a bid in to the Housing Infrastructure Fund – something in the region of \u00a3150m on the basis of there being 3,500 houses. This is to justify some funding for the reconfigured motorway junction, the crossing of the mainline west coast railway to access the site, to develop the bus system etc. Maybe a first question to ask is what are the infrastructure costs associated with this particular site? Given recent history of expenditure overruns on say the Bay Gateway the track record is not encouraging.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week’s Lancaster Guardian (paper edition) includes a two page special report entitled: ‘There’s a sense that Galgate doesn’t count: seven months on from the major flooding that hit Galgate, residents are becoming increasingly concerned about new building developments that could leave them at even more risk than ever before’:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lancasterguardian.co.uk\/news\/galgate-residents-reveal-frustration-desperation-and-depression-after-2017-floods-1-9208157<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

You seem to be dismissing the community impact of Bailrigg garden village as something that only affects Burrow Heights and the tone is ‘well so what?’ Galgate, Bailrigg village, Burrow Heights and Scotforth are Bailrigg garden village’s neighbours. The November floods affected all those areas and additional building simply adds to concerns. Did you attend the recent open meetings around the Health Innovation Campus? Those meetings highlighted how the local communities felt about drainage from University development flowing into the Ou Beck and the Burrow Beck – residents were anxious and angry. Did you read about the angry flood meetings in December following last year’s floods? Residents were not reassured by Lancaster City Council that Bailrigg garden village would solve all that, far from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another question to ask is what relationship, if any, does the university have to Bailrigg garden village? It isn’t at all clear and with a venture that is causing so much local concern it would be interesting to know. Where will people work who live in Bailrigg garden village? I have long been confused by seeming conflicting employment projections from the Health Innovation Campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

2,000 jobs are quoted in the publicity – how has that figure been arrived at?<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also massive worry about air quality in South Lancaster, highlighted in research from LEC. You commented on the very vague ‘plans’ for rapid bus transport and the belief that the reconfigured motorway junction would solve air quality for Galgate. But would it? What will happen to Scotforth and the Pointer roundabout, already hardly quiet, if spiralling costs or planning issues and personal choice mean people still use their cars to take their kids to school, to go to the supermarket, etc.?<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a retired member of the University and I am a Galgate resident so you could say I am an interested party. You normally provide an excellent set of insights and hope this letter might be helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best wishes,<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Rose<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n

Thought this might be of interest. A group of squatters recently occupied one of Gary Neville’s properties in Manchester in part to protest against the lack of affordable housing in the city and Neville’s role in gentrification. Their collective statement (cited in the below piece) directly takes aim at the UA92 plan and its relationship to the wider marketisation of HE.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/freedomnews.org.uk\/gary-neville-luxury-development-occupied-by-persons-unknown\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Best wishes,<\/span><\/p>\n

Toby Atkinson<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear subtext, I am an enormous fan of subtext and have been over a number of years. I have been especially impressed by reports on UA92 and much more. This meant I was surprised to see the report on Bailrigg … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[367,374,362,54],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-bailrigg-garden-village","tag-issue-180","tag-letters","tag-ua92"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-aC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":630,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/06\/07\/garden-villages-of-to-morrow\/","url_meta":{"origin":658,"position":0},"title":"GARDEN VILLAGES OF TO-MORROW","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 7 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It's consultations galore at the moment. The city council is presently carrying out an 'Issues and Options' consultation on Bailrigg Garden Village, including several drop-in events during June. For details, go to: https:\/\/www.lancaster.gov.uk\/planning\/planning-policy\/bailrigg-garden-village The first drop-in session was on Wednesday 6 June in the Bowland Suite at the Lancaster House\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news"","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":668,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/06\/21\/keeping-it-classy\/","url_meta":{"origin":658,"position":1},"title":"OLD MACDONALD HAD A… HOUSE (OR 68)","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 21 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Mary Rose's letter on Bailrigg Garden Village (see below) offers a counter to subtext's mildly optimistic tone. 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