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Plans to relocate car boot sale rejected
The land at the back of Cubitt Way, where a new car boot sale was proposed to be held. Photo: Georgi Mabee/Peterborough ET
RESIDENTS in a city flat complex have been celebrating after plans to relocate a car boot sale to near their homes were rejected.
The proposals to move the car boot sale that takes place at Peterborough United’s ground in London Road to land belonging to Railworld at the back of Cubitt Way, in Woodston, were narrowly refused by the city council’s Planning and Environmental Committee yesterday.
The plans would have seen traders arriving at the site at 7.30am every Sunday, as well on Thursday evenings in the summer and on bank holidays.
But after hearing from residents living near the proposed site, who described how the noise would make their lives a misery, committee chairman Nigel North refused permission, after a tied vote.
David Motley, who lives in the flats on Cubitt Way, said he was delighted by the decision.
He had earlier told the committee that residents’ lives were already blighted by people parking on Cubitt Way on Peterborough United match days, and the fair located on nearby Fair Meadows car park.
He sad: “I am very happy about the decision that has been made. I thought the way the report had been written, the decision had been rubber stamped, but it is good that the committee took our concerns into account.”
Jonathon Radway, another resident of the flats, had told the hearing: “A car boot sale on the land would be life-changing for us. It would destroy a quiet community.
“There will be people calling out across the car park, radios blaring out.
“Why would you want to inflict this on us. Would you be happy with this proposal if it impacted on you like it will impact on us?”
Cllr Marion Todd said: “I am very concerned about this proposal. The people in the flats would have no privacy and they already have to put up with enough. People in the city centre should not have to put up with hell.”
Simon Smith, who represented Railworld at the meeting, said measures would be taken to ensure lives would not be made a misery, including preventing pedestrian and vehicle access to the site, and having a team of stewards who would clean up any litter left.
He said: “All the vehicles would be able to access the site from the car park, and would not use Cubitt Way.
“There would be a fence which would stop people coming in that way, and there would also be stewards blocking the fence.
“There would be no amplified music allowed on the site during the car boot sales.”
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Mavis Enderby
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 03:47 PMYou wouldn't find me walking past there on a dark night - come to that, I would not feel that comfortable walking past there on a bright sunny day! All sorts of unsalubrious tinkers about on the occasion when I was taken to see this "attraction"!
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