Thank you Stella, Well I have just finished writing my objections out, I don't suppose I have done a brilliant job because I am incandescent with rage and try as I may to be polite I want to rip them a new one, which I have no doubt they will talk out of too.
Ashy, you have to avoid the personal annoyance & marshall hard facts.
I, at a public meeting in the 1970s, successfully stopped the building of a new (what is now called Premier League) football stadium in a part of a new residential housing scheme.
After the usual ranting by other members of the public, which the developers & council were expecting, I raised my hand.
I didn't make a speech I got permission to ask questions & then proceeded to do an IUC / cross-examination interview of which, I hope, Cassandra would have been proud.
I didn't moan about the noise on match days or the disruption of the construction work, I asked questions about:
seating capacity
average supporter attendance, especially away suporters
if there was a car park
the capacity of the car park
When all these questions had been asked & answered, one at a time, I asked a question about the average car occupancy, which they didn't know but which I did after my talk with the Dept of Transport.
I then did a quick calculation on my newly-bought electronic calculator (£8 in 1977) & asked the developers & the council what contingency plans would they be making for the potential 2,000 cars that wouldn't fit into the car park & would end up parking on the nearest housing estate.
It wasn't built.