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Child safety fears over abattoir traffic
Thursday 1st July 2010, 11:01AM BST.
Children’s lives could be put at risk if plans to double the size of an abattoir in north Shropshire are given the go-ahead, school governors said today.
The governors at Weston Lullingfields Primary School are the latest to object to proposals submitted by Anglo Beef Processors, at Hordley, near Ellesmere, to bulldoze its abattoir and replace it with a modern, more energy-efficient complex.
Concerns regarding the speed and size of vehicles mean the number of letters of objection to Shropshire Council has now hit the 100 mark.
ABP bosses said today they would look into all of the issues raised.
The deadline for views ends today and it will now be considered by Shropshire Council.
In a letter to council chiefs, Robin Rees-Webbe, chairman of governors at the school, said: “The governors are concerned over proposed changes to be made to ABP abattoir at Hordley. They have no objections to any changes to the facilities, but are most worried over the movement of vehicles in to and out of the abattoir.
“The speed and size of the cattle trucks and lorries passing through Weston Lullingfields are a constant danger to children going to and leaving the school.
“Recent speed limits imposed at Weston Lullingfields are not effective. Traffic control systems should be initiated that will ensure that abattoir traffic only uses the access road via Queens Head and Rednal.
“Examples would be changes to signs and road re-design at the abattoir forcing traffic to use northern approach.”
A spokesman for ABP said it was in consultation with the planning authority about all of the issues which have been raised.
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not to worry when abp go elsewhere there will be no need for a school anymore
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What happened to the last post about this issue, it just vanished?. Some bright spark who probably lives miles away from this area was spouting about jobs for the locals etc. In May I was visiting my niece Debbie Maddocks who lives just down the lane from this abomination and who has just founded a group opposed to these plans, we arrived at knocking off time and judging by the number of cars heading towards Ellesmere there can be very few locals employed there. Even in a car we had to pull over as there was insufficient room for 2 vehicles to pass in places. Had we encountered one of the 44 tonners it would have been a case of reversing into a gateway or someone’s drive. This facility has now outgrown it’s location and must be relocated to a suitable site where peoples lives and safety are not at risk. They are going to flatten the place anyway so why not buy a site where they would not be causing all these problems. Anyone who thinks that the local residents are overreacting should take a trip down there one day in normal working hours. Seat belts and crash helmets advisable. Has someone’s child got to die before the powers that be take notice, I really hope not, but the potential is there.
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I think Jeff works for the Star just to wind people up.
He hasn,t written any sence since this subject was started.
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