Subject: re proposed development at 215 & 219 Evington lane
To: planning@leicester.gov.uk
CC: editor@evingtonecho.co.uk

My concerns re this development are:-

1. The "new" proposals appear to be very similar to the original ones that so many of us rejected apart from preserving the second house. I do not expect this house to withstand the upheaval of this development and it will also no doubt be taken down at a later stage. So the developers win yet again.

2. The current notification is sited so low on the fence that it goes unnoticed and is difficult to read especially for the elderly tenants of Evington.

3. Evington is a conservation area, which you confirmed today despite a statement not being written yet by June Gray, and for that reason I am truly concerned that the 2 beautiful, mature, tall & elegant pine trees at the front of the land (on the road side) are threatened. These will dramatically change the visual appearance along that part of Evington Lane and the view that we have from The Common. I moved to Evington over 15 years ago for the very reason that it had so many mature trees and as a conservation area one expects that to be preserved..I feel that every effort should be made to protect these trees for the future and that the developers should be committed to make every effort to do just that when building starts.

4. What efforts have been made to investigate the current wild life on the plots? has a survey been carried out? I know that in my garden across in The Common we have bats that fly about on summer evenings and I am sure this must be the same for 215 & 219. The pond in the garden of 215, which will be destroyed by building the house at the back must have wild life in situ. what has been done to investigate this? The tenants who recently lived there said that many creatures visited the garden and the biodiversity is extensive.

5. This development will no doubt go ahead but I feel strongly that preservation of the trees at the front must be maintained (without them the area will be robbed of such beauty) as well as the trees on the land adjacent at the back. I am concerned about the increased traffic entering Evington Lane so near the traffic lights and the number of school children who walk along that stretch of pavement. Annette Ogilvie-Forbes Local tenant.