Air Quality Management Area 5 - Pollution in Greenstreet (A2)

Lynsted Lane plans - 10 +40 new homes

MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD BEFORE 10th March 2022

IMAGES OF LYNSTED LANE AS IT JOINS THE A2 - NOT THE AIR-BRUSHED VERSION OF THE DEVELOPERS

This gallery knocks into a cocked-hat the idiotically timed two traffic samples made by the developers to argue that a new junction onto Lynsted Lane might be workable and acceptable. The complexity of this topography cannot be improved by adding further competition for what is little better than a rural track!

 

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Lynsted Lane Junction 5pm 26th May 2021 No1

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Lynsted Lane Junction 5pm 26th May 2021 No2

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Lynsted Lane Junction 5pm 26th May 2021 No3 - A2 traffic 'uncorked' after the bus joins the A2

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Lynsted Lane Junction 5pm 26th May 21 No4

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Lynsted Lane Junction 5pm 26th May 21 No5

 

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Lynsted Lane Junction 0850am 27th May 21, No1

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Lynsted Lane Junction 0850am 27th May 21 No2

 

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Lynsted Lane Junction 1027am 8th June 2021 No1 - Ship ahoy! Any trailer presents difficulties.

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Lynsted Lane Junction 1027am 8th June 2021 No2 - Bus struggled to join A2 with cars close on its heels.

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Lynsted Lane Junction 1027am 8th June 2021 No3 - Traffic backed up from A2 joining Lynsted Lane

Lynsted Lane Junction traffic build up, 0907am 9th June 2021
Lynsted Lane Junction traffic build up, 0907am 9th June 2021

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Lynsted Lane Junction 0907am 9th June 2021

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Lynsted Lane Junction 1621pm 9th June 2021

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Lynsted Lane Junction 0936am 10th June 2021

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Lynsted Lane Junction 0946am 10th June 2021

 

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Lynsted_Lane_Junction_2009pm 11th June 2021. A rural lane without pedestrian refuges or pavements.

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Lynsted Lane Junction 2010pm 11th June 2021. A rural lane without pedestrian refuges or pavements.

Thundering great truck on Lynsted Lane junction
12.48pm, 26th June 2021. Can you imagine a removal van or refuse truck make any turn at this point!?

2nd September 0850am  Lynsted Lane congestion
The misery just keeps on going along Lynsted Lane as it hits the A2. 2nd September 2021, 08.50am

Workman guiding lorry past traffic and parked vehicles 3rd September 2021
Guide needed to clear obstructions at A2 Junction with Lynsted Lane. 2nd September 2021, 08.50am

When Lorries meet at the Junction of A2 and Lynsted Lane 2nd September 0850am
When two lorries meet at the A2 Junction with Lynsted Lane. Bonkers. 2nd September 2021, 08.50am

Earth moving lorries as more development takes place
A clear illustration of how little space there is at the point where a junction is proposed to ten and then forty/fifty new homes! Miserable destruction of high-value- biodiversity assets. 2nd September 2021, 08.50am

Lynsted Lane gridlock with bus and two construction lorries
Lynsted Lane continues daily to experience gridlock as soon as buses or large construction and other vehicles turn into the narrow rural lane. 15th September 2021.

 

Contact: nigel@aqma5.co.uk

HOW CAN I MAKE OBJECTIONS TO THIS AND OTHER PROPOSALS? There are several options - listed here

We want to Breathe Clean Air

Developer Pressure Outside the Borough Plan

  1. LYNSTED 19/505036/OUT - NEW - Lynsted with Kingsdown PC flier sent out 3rd November.
  2. NEW Parish Council Letter objecting to SBC Draft Local Plan - to build 1,400 new homes around Greenstreet (A2) and Teynham Village..
  3. LYNSTED 120: 16/506237/OUT - withdrawn
    KCC Highways and Transportation Response (dated 20th March; Posted 24th May).
  4. SITTINGBOURNE 11,250: South & East of Sittingbourne: 17/506492/ENVSCR - Possible "Garden Community" (really it is "urban Sprawl").
  5. NORTON ASH 67: 14/505933/FULL - old Garden Centre Site

Borough Plan Approved Additions to A2 Traffic and Pollution

  1. TEYNHAM 300+Commercial Properties: 16/507689/OUT - Frognall Lane. This development will have priority at the roundabout on the A2 over all traffic on the A2 travelling west. So we will have an entirely NEW source of congestion flowing back into AQMA5!
  2. TEYNHAM 130: 18/503697/FULL - Station Road
  3. BAPCHILD 600: 14/501588/OUT - Stones Farm, Bapchild
  4. SITTINGBOURNE 540: 15/510254/OUT - Swanstree Avenue
  5. OSPRINGE 250 + 50: 14/502729/OUT - Brickworks & 17/505079/OUT - Western Link/A2
  6. FAVERSHAM 310 + 63: 15/504264/OUT - Perry Court & SW/13/1567 - Opp. Greenways
  7. BRICKEARTH from BARROW GREEN FARM - 760,000 tonnes extraction 30,000 tons per annum for 25 years.

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Pollutant concentration at 1 metre


GREEN SPACES - "COFFIN PATH GATEWAY" - a view