Firstly I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my blog. As I live in Kingskerswell this issue is very important to me and the picture is of the stream the runs through the fields of Kerswell Down. This photograph was shot not that long ago on a crisp winter’s morning. As you can see, it looks delightful and provides a wonderful environment for diverse local wildlife.
If the bypass gets the go ahead, this brook will disappear. Water will be directed under the bypass through large concrete pipes and then into a concrete pipes. This issue is very important and sometimes I don’t think people understand how much the Bypass will affect Kingskerswell villager’s lives. In my advocacy I am trying to gain support and change the attitudes of people who believe the Kingskerswell Bypass should be built or people who are undecided and/or uninformed. After reading my blog I hope you can see why I feel this issue is so important and I hope you will be willing to support my campaign against it.
Teignbridge District Council and others, who want to make the journey between Exeter and Torquay quicker, are trying to build a 5km, £130 million pound Kingskerswell bypass and I am one of the many trying to convince the council and hopefully you that this is a bad idea. Here are some reasons-
• It would disturb the wildlife and plant life
• It will cost a lot of money - £130 million which our parents pay for in their taxes
• There will be a lot more noise pollution disturbing all the village and the people who are living in and around it
• It would ruin the habitat of the animals on the Downs, which would make it dangerous for them, and it would make it harder for them to live
• It will destroy our true Devonshire countryside
• It won’t be good to look at; we don’t want to see all the construction.
• It would be very harmful for the planet and global warming
• There would be lots of disruption to the village with lots of trucks and diggers going through the country lanes.
• The church is right next to the proposed route of the bypass. A church is meant to be a peaceful resting place not a noisy building next to a main road.
• So many people through their litter straight onto the road as they are driving after a while Kingskerswell have litter everywhere.
• Lots of businesses along the main road will lose a lot of business because less people will use the original main road as they would probably prefer to use a new modern road.
Thank you again for reading my blog. I hope it made you think. Please comment on any views you have, I would love to hear your views. Thank you so much, please comment,
Emily
hi emily, i can see why you have chosen this issue as your advocacy, i support this very much as i use to live in kingskerswell myself and i know what it was like. i personally think that this is bad as the £130million could be used somewhere else, maybe to provide things for youths to do. i think that you should ask the buisnesses like 'the hare and hounds' to see what they would say to loosing passing-by customers, i hope this helps.
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI have found out a lot from your blog and I think you have some very good arguments.
Karolina xxx
Hi Emily this is an amazing blog.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes it will destroy Kingskerswell
hey, you have a lot of arguements here that really meen something to the life of devon.
ReplyDeleteIt will destory kingskerswell and all the countryside houses will then be able to see the bypass which will completly destroy their views from the house.
good blog!!!!!! the by pass should definitly not be buit it destroys all the natural habbitat!!!
ReplyDeleteI live in kingskerswell aswell and i completely agree with your campaign, the bypass will be very close to my house and the noise will be horendous. Also the reason for this bypass is faster traffic but is faster traffic worth the life of living breathing wildlife
ReplyDeleteHi Emily
ReplyDeleteI also live in Kingskerswell and I think that the bypass should not be built as the beautiful countryside that we don't have much of in Kingskerswell shouldn't be destroyed. I have lived in Kingskerswell all of my life and I would like to keep walking my dog there.
Kingskerswell wouldn't be kingskerswell if it had a bybass and at £130 million this is a lot of money to pay so it wouldn't be kingskerswell
ReplyDeleteThank You soooo much for commenting on my blog, it means a lot to me and i really appreciate it, keep commenting, thanks xx
ReplyDeleteEmily
I live in kingskerswell too and I love the quite county feel of kingskerswell! You are absolutely right and i support you in your campeign! Good luck, I hope it goes well.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely 100 % DISAGREE. I have to travel through kingskerswell everyday and i am normally late to work because of the bypass. It should be built as it will certainly make mine and many other lives easier.
ReplyDeleteGood one emily. your is so well informed, and i defiantly agree with you. it will destroy kingskerswell. Not to be built! xxx
ReplyDeleteA bypass is needed desperately to reduce the pollution caused by cars crawling along the whole stretch of road. The design currently proposed is flawed, and does not address all the issues of road safety, local access (normal and for emergency services), pollution reduction and other environmental ideals. A well designed & sited bypass would actually make Kingskerswell a nicer place to live.
ReplyDeletei agree with the bypass not to be made ,but i have a question which is ,when was the bypass issue first established ?its been along time hasnt it ?
ReplyDeleteHow is it going to reduce the pollution of the cars when all it will do is spread the pollution onto another road? plus, more cars may choose to use the roads between Newton and Torquay because they think it will be quieter
ReplyDeleteyes i totally agree all it will do is move the pollution onto another road. The bypass was first proposed about 50 years ago and not much has changed until now. Up until now they have made plans but only recently has the idea actually been moved forward a step. I think that if we can find a better solution to the problem now, then there will be no need in the future.
ReplyDeleteEmily x