A public inquiry into plans to build a new prison in the Chorley countryside has heard that there would be times during its construction when even more HGVs would be using a narrow rural road to access the site than had previously been thought.
An appeal against Chorley Council’s refusal of permission for the proposed jail, in Ulnes Walton, was rejected by a planning inspector for reasons which included concern over the ability of Ulnes Walton Lane to cope with such a significant increase in heavy goods traffic.
It’s stretching the meaning of access slightly, don't you think?” Mr. Yeates disagreed, insisting that the weight limit was simply to “deter through traffic”, not because of an inherent problem with the road, such as a weakness in it. He also claimed that the lane had been used to create the Wymott and Garth jails in Ulnes Walton - built in the 1970s and 1980s - but was forced by Mr. Riley-Smith to concede that that was just his “assumption”. Mr.
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