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Residents vow to fight petrol station expansion - HAVE YOUR SAY
FAMILIES have vowed to fight plans to extend Whitby's Four Lane Ends Garage.
A planning application has been submitted by David Duke of W Eves and Co to alter and improve existing access to the service station moving it further up Guisborough Road.
Mr Duke, who has submitted 10 planning applications to alter the garage since 2000, also wants to add three new 10,000 gallon fuel tanks below ground and to provide additonal customer parking.
In a formal application to Scarborough Borough Council by architects BHD Partnership it states this is to allow access for a commercial vehicle to stand at a pump to the south west side of the forecourt and for staff and visitor parking to be relocated giving more space for vehicles entering the forecourt for them to queue safely within the site until a petrol pump becomes available.
Additional external lighting will also be used in the area but no additional petrol pumps are proposed.
Residents are fuming over the proposal and have inundated the council with letters opposing it.
They have also started a petition and formed a Residents' Action Group.
Families have also reacted angrily to a blunder by Scarborough Borough Council's planning department which saw some of the consultation letters for residents in Guisborough Road sent to Aislaby by mistake, meaning they arrived more than a week late.
Julie Watt (39) of Guisborough Road said she is "totally appalled" at the plans for expansion.
"The garage has just got bigger and bigger," she said.
"Guisborough Road into Whitby is a living nightmare especially at weekends and holiday periods with queuing traffic.
"It can take 10 minutes to get out of our drive.
"People use Holmstead Avenue as a rat run and we are going to do the petition in Holmstead Avenue and the local vicinity too.
"The garage is becoming like a motorway service station. Everyone is up in arms. We are going to fight it all the way."
In 2006, an application to raise the height of the garage's canopy was turned down by the council's planning committee following a flurry of objections from residents.
In a letter of objection to the council, Ronald Lavender, of Guisborough Road, said: "The garage already causes noise, congestion and inconvenience to residents of Guisborough Road from early morning until late at night. A larger business would cause more.
“Sainsbury’s have proposed a petrol station at their development which would probably be a cheaper option for people to buy their fuel at.”
In a letter sent to residents, Mr Duke told them the noise and congestion is primarily coming from the volume of traffic rather than the filling station and he hopes the park and ride scheme when introduced will alleviate the traffic volume.
He added: “Safety on the site together with meeting the statutory enviromental requirements of the site are paramount and I should have thought are not in conflict with your own wishes as near neighbours.”
A spokeswoman for Scarborough Borough Council said the postcodes the letters had on them were correct but for some reason Aislaby had been inserted into the address.
She added just three residents hadn’t responded to its initial letter and they have been given until Tuesday to air their views to the council.
A decision on the application, which was recommended for approval by Whitby Town Council, will be made by the council’s planning committee next Thursday.
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