HALLS THE CHEMIST NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE

We have been asked by Halls the Chemist to make you aware that they are in danger of being forced to close their new Pharmacy if a Planning Application by the Co-Op in Stanground Central to move into a temporary portakabin adjacent to the Stanground Surgery is approved. If you wish to object kindly copy off this pro-forma letter fill in your details as indicated, add your usual signature and post it in a stamped address envelope; or use the template to e-mail the Planning department. Feel free to add any other objections you may wish to raise with the planning officers. One letter for each person objecting.   Thank You. 

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Your Name: ……………………………………..

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Mr S. Wendon & Ms L C Lovegrove

Peterborough City Council Planning Services

Stuart House, East Wing

St Johns Street, Peterborough PE1 5DD                     e-mail: planningcontrol@peterborough.gov.uk

Dear Sir/Madam

Re: 11/01561/FUL Planning Application: Proposed Portakabin to house temporary Pharmacy for 3 years and new fence/ gates and paved areas at Stanground Surgery, Whittlesey Road, Stanground, Peterborough.

I, the undersigned wish to formally object to the planning application under reference: 11/01561/FUL.  

My objections are as follows:

1. The lack of sufficient vehicle parking and vehicle waiting/ drop off areas at the already full Surgery car park. The complete absence of any defined goods safe loading/unloading areas.  The fact that a proportion of the existing spaces are excluded marked as reserved for the adjacent dentist and not available to casual users.  Some existing spaces are also reserved/ occupied by the community paramedic emergency vehicles.
2.  The enhanced security risk to the community and children by virtue of having drugs in substantial quantities located in a temporary Portakabin structure, set back in a secluded, isolated remote location. The proposed temporary structure is close to a nearby (soon to be floodlit) skatepark with a direct underpass. The skatepark will be used from Spring onwards 24 hours a day.
3. The access /exit surgery lane onto  main road is dangerous even for experienced drivers, limited visibility, multiple blindspots due to Peterborough Road incline outside Stanground College (3,000 students) ,the close  proximity of a raised roundabout, curved road, fire station and two bus stops.
4. Halls Chemists have indicated that if the portakabin application is approved, they will have no option but to close their new state-of-the-art pharmacy with the loss of nine jobs, community drugs delivery service, disabled and regular off road parking bays.
5. The Co-Op is seeking to close its No 2 Stanground Central Square pharmacy shared with the Stanground Post Office (behind the Tesco Metro store). Should the Co-op close the existing pharmacy, the Post office will in time close. This cannot be good for the local community, with the loss of essential facilities.

I invite the planning officers to take into account my objections and formally reject this application.

Yours truly,

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