LAND IS UNSUITABLE
NDDC’s own consultant’s report (The Atkins Report December 2009) shows the land to be unsuitable for development in so much as it came 20th out of the 24 sites assessed for suitability.
| (Atkins Report 2009) 3.21 |
| "There are no plans to increase the number or frequency of bus routes within the town which require public subsidy for them to operate at existing levels." |
| (Atkins Report 2009) Table 4.3 Evaluation of major sites. |
| Assessed the potential to improve walking and cycle routes to the proposed site at Wyke, it has been given 1 out of a possible five. 1 being; Very Poor. For "10 minutes walk of Town Centre" it has been given 1 out of a possible 5. 1 being Very Poor. |
| The report, that cost £45,000 that NDDC have understandably chosen to ignore is so vague and yet at the same time contradictory that it will not help either side in this argument. At the time of printing it was already 10 years out of date because the information used for the report was based on the 2001 Census, when Gillingham had a population of 8,630, the population of the town has grown at the fastest rate of any urban area in Dorset, now having a population of over 12,000. |
