EVERYONE will have read document 01746473 from planning application 15/01083/HYB available via Hambleton District Council's planning portal, especially the exciting Chapter 6 on Traffic and Transport. Please do not knock it, it is the best chapter in the document, which concerns the proposed Northallerton link road.

If you look at paragraph 5.9.1 you will see that in 2016 they will just be starting to build dwellings. If you do some maths, you will work out that by 2018 there will be 135 dwellings built. By 2022 there will be 495 dwellings built.

As the link from Darlington Road to Stokesley Road was only designed to provide traffic mitigation for the development but not to solve the existing problems at Low Gates Railway Crossing, it was always doubtful that the link road would act as a panacea.

Paragraph 3.2.27 states: "It has been agreed with NYCC and HDC that the trigger level for delivering the Link Road and railway bridge crossing is occupation up to 495 dwellings on the NNDA Site."

If I remember correctly, the North Northallerton Development was heavily sold to the public on the basis that the link road would solve all the traffic problems at Low Gates Railway Crossing. Something that was not sold to the general public was that the link road would not be completed until 2022.

I wonder if anyone at York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership has spotted that yet.

Alan McKee, Brompton, Northallerton.