Objection to the Planning Application

Below is a template that you could use to object to the hospitals planning application.
Feel free to copy this into a letter or email. You can add to it or cut bits as you see fit, according to your own views on the redevelopment.

(Can we point out that the objections we have are to the lack of car parking provision within the plans for the site. We do not object to improving healthcare facilities for Sunderland. Considerable changes have taken place at the Royal Hospital site in recent years and there will be more in the next few years. The car parking issues must therefore be resolved at this stage).

Whatever you do say in your letter or email, if you object you must include the word object (or objection) otherwise your views may just be taken as a comment and not counted as an objection.
Also, you should give your name and address so that they can see you are a local resident with a valid interest in the application.
Also quote the application number: 09/00997/FUL

Clicking here will take you directly to the council planning website where you can leave your comments (link opens in a new window).

Or you can Email: dc@sunderland.gov.uk

Or write to: Head of Planning and Environment, PO Box 102, Civic Centre, Sunderland. SR2 7DN

SAMPLE LETTER:


Re: Planning Application number 09/00997/FUL - Development at Sunderland Royal Hospital

I wish to object to this planning application on the following grounds:

Currently, there is insufficient parking provision on site, a fact acknowledged by both the Hospital Trust and the City Council and a reality that local residents are only too familiar with. Long term parking in the streets around the hospital is a major issue for local residents and this redevelopment on the Hospital site will contribute further to these problems. The proposals include the creation of just 139 new car parking spaces, with 114 available for normal use (the remainder being disabled spaces). This is not enough to cope with the existing pressures on the site and will have no impact once the additional 138 beds and extended treatment facilities are opened.

The planning application states that “the proposed development represents part of a wider ongoing redevelopment programme planned for the Royal Hospital.” If additional redevelopments are to go ahead in the future, as well as those which have taken place in recent years, these parking issues must be resolved at this stage.

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