A further Letter to Councilor Tony Sharps

Tony Sharps CC
Northop Hall

cc Mark Tami MP, Carl Sargeant AM

Dear Tony,
I forgot to mention the Welsh Assembly's "road network improvements"
With ex Flintshire Leader Alex Aldridge saying yesterday in The Evening Leader that although he had immense sympathy for the plight of people living near the A494, the people of Flint didn't want the A494 problem off loaded on to them. If the A494 development goes ahead I have read that Northop Hall will suffer similar problems to Penyffordd when the A55 exit at Warren Hall goes ahead.

Many millions of pounds are being spent to shave minutes off journeys with the result that small villages like Penyffordd and Northop Hall are left to the mercy of ever increasing speeding traffic whose drivers do not even live in the villages.

The Welsh Assembly need to account for the effects their grandiose schemes have on local villages and factor in money to protect Welsh rural villages from unwanted speeding traffic.
The legislation is there in The Welsh Government Act 2006.
Instead of leaving Community Council's with little money to pick up the bill for a problem not of their making.

regards Colin Hughes

ps If you want to see a good example of a trunk road that used to be the main road and now has a by-pass visit Rossett. A 20 mph compulsory zone in the middle of the village with a set of bumps that wreck the car if driven over at speed.