People have their say about controversial Kettering Energy Park development at Finedon drop-in consultation

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00:12 Yeah, I'm entirely against this development. I think it's a wrong solution in the wrong place.

00:19 Even myself, I'm not against logistic science. I just don't think it should be cited here for legal reasons.

00:26 I don't think it should be a top quality outage on that.

00:31 I think some of the justifications are incorrect.

00:37 I think justifying the basis is so, doesn't wash the name of, say, a level of disability, freeing it.

00:45 I think we've got a major problem in infrastructure and our junctions and clean structures and that,

00:51 and especially the traffic implications of going through high-rises.

00:55 I don't think we've remodelled properly. A lot of the modelling we've had to date, and we've had to do more banking to date,

01:00 we haven't got the ability to bypass this, basically, and surround it by new infrastructure.

01:05 And if we've got 4,000 people going to go to work and pass every day there, where are they living?

01:10 Where's the school bus? Where's the doctors? And how are they going to get there?

01:14 And those poor transport isn't big enough. You can't get a bus, a welling bus, and find them.

01:18 It goes through worse than a hospital. So, if there's 4,000 people coming in by car,

01:23 a lot of them are going to be feeling so sorry for them.

01:25 I oppose the way that the plan is being developed. Although they talk about consultation,

01:31 it's been a very poor consultation. We were told it's an energy park, the Petra Energy Park.

01:38 First thing, it's not in Petra. Secondly, it's not an energy park in the way that you would expect.

01:44 I would expect an energy park to be not producing green green energy,

01:49 putting that into the grid to be of benefit to local people.

01:54 Or at least the grid itself is being provided power for warehousing,

02:00 and that was never really mentioned on the initiative.

02:03 Axia as a whole has done its fair share of providing warehousing.

02:08 We don't need, there is no genuine need for warehouse employment in this area.

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02:21 If there's a demand for this, I think we have to meet those demands,

02:25 because logistics and transport have to play to the economy.

02:29 If you've got to site it in the right place, it's not here.

02:32 There's no intermodal layout here that the plan has proposed.

02:36 So I think it's the wrong solution.

02:38 The plan needs changing. This is at the moment, it hasn't been put in the form of a plan application.

02:44 It is just an outline master plan that has to be agreed with the community,

02:50 that it's going to be affected by it.

02:52 The meeting yesterday was very clear.

02:54 Warehousing at 25 metres tall is unacceptable in that area.

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