| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Blood on their hands | Forum Home |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 26/06/12 15:44:00 |
| Don't forget Anthony that I am a local resident - I do have a life outside of planning !. And undoubtedly sometimes there's a clash - only in the last week as a development site next to where I live has started to take shape, I have felt sadness and annoyance at the loss of vegetation and trees which formed the boundary between the site and where I live. No doubt with my professional hat on I'd point to an arboricultural report which says that the trees were of low value/merit etc., but with my personal hat on I think it's a great shame that they've gone. I take your point about distraction but, again from a non-technical perspective, everything around us when we're driving is a distraction, e.g. another vehicle, a pretty girl, a house, an animal etc, etc. It's not like every road we drive on is straight with brick walls on either side and no other visual stimulus. Thus as drivers we are required to deal/cope with distractions. Of course there's a reasonable limit to such distractions - it would be hard to argue that a huge, illuminated, constantly changing (i.e. every few seconds) flashing display at the same height as the carriageway and next to a major motorway wouldn't cause an unacceptable level of distraction to motorists, but I don't feel this applies to the proposed signs on top of the towers. I haven't actually looked at the Committee Report yet so am curious to see whether highway safety concerns were part of their basis for recommending refusal. |