Banners protesting plans for a 164 new homes in a West Cumbrian town have appeared by the site.
The signs have been erected on land opposite Uldale View in Egremont.
It is not known who is behind the banners – but they have highlighted worries around an increase in traffic near local schools, concerns over potholes and the homes being built on agricultural land.
If approved, the new homes would be built across two fields, last planted in 2022 with cereal crops.
No official objections to the plans have currently been lodged with the planning authority Cumberland Council.
The council’s highways team have also issued no objections to the proposal, but said the housebuilder should put £41,700 towards improvements to the path connecting Bookwell School to Uldale View; £6,600 towards travel plan monitoring and around £1,065,480 for secondary education to provide additional accommodation capacity at the town’s West Lakes Academy.
These investments would come as part of wider investment into the town – which Gleeson Homes has previously said would include local infrastructure and public space improvement in the town.
The site is also set to be subject to archaeological investigation if planning is granted as the results of an initial archaeological desk-based assessments flagged the site as having archaeological potential.
Cumberland Council’s historic environment officer said the site was a former medieval deer park and cropmarks indicate a prehistoric enclosure exists in a next-door field.
It is believed that as a result there is the potential for buried archaeological assets on the site, which must be addressed before construction.
