The 1,700 inmate prison would be built close to Ulnes Walton and the existing HMP Wymott and Garth sites 👮
As the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed shortly after the proceedings closed, the government decided to take the unusual step of ’recovering’ the appeal – meaning that the Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove, would get the final say over the proposal and not the planning inspector who chaired the inquiry.
UWAG’s Emma Curtis said that while the group would have preferred Michael Gove simply to accept the inspector’s recommendation to refuse the appeal, reopening the inquiry was “the only fair way” forward. “UWAG also expressed concern – again shared by the planning inspector – that the urgent need for these additional prison places had not been adequately demonstrated by the MoJ,” Emma added.A message on the group’s Facebook page confidently declares: “We can win this.”
As part of the plans, changes to the road layout were proposed to address a predicted spike in delays at the another local junction – where Ulnes Walton Lane meets the A581, Southport Road – which are forecast to jump from around 32 seconds currently to over 210 seconds if and when the prison is in operation.
Mr. Gilbert-Wooldridge found that it had “not been demonstrated that the works would resolve capacity issues” – and, if the new junction proved unable to do so, he concluded that the proposal would have “an unacceptable impact on highway safety”.
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