****Newsflash!!!!*****Lingfield, Surrey, UK. The Thatched Cottage. Lorry-hit damage to Listed Building. Road flood-water damage to Listed Building. Home of 'Biggles' author, W.E. Johns, is being damaged by traffic. Council ignores damage to Listed Building for 11 years!! Developers ignore damage to Listed Building. The Thatched Cottage was always going to be 'in the way' should developers try to build on land opposite the cottage. Developers get permission for first pinch-point some way 'up the road'. Council and developers need another pinch-point so leave The Thatched Cottage off the plans. New traffic scheme endangers home of Biggles. Godstone Road traffic scheme endangers home of author W.E.Johns. New traffic scheme endangers 15th Century Listed Building. This video was used to show the damage being caused to The Thatched Cottage. It was shown to members of Surrey County Council, to Tandridge District Council, to the developers and to the Inspectorate; none address the fact that lorries hit the thatched roof. Rubber-stamped. They do not see that the cottage leans to one side following years of lorry-hits. They cannot see why the plaster is shaken off the timber frame of the building along its road-side. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. Rubber-stamped. The developers obliged to have second pinch-point - did they not know that to start with? Now planned in a dangerous position and against police advice. The Thatched Cottage and its access drive 'on and off' the plans in many and varied 'revisions'. Currently driveway off the plans. All rubber-stamped. This pinch-point will send ALL of the lorries, all of the horse boxes and all of the traffic across the Godstone Road to The Thatched Cottage. *****Newsflash!!! ****** Planner now working for developer is former Highways employee at Surrey County Council. Well, fancy that...
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