§ Mr. Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby)I wish to present a petition from Marjorie Mary Blyth of 68 Highfield avenue and from 3,146 other residents of Highfield avenue and Peaksfield avenue in Grimsby against Humberside county council's compulsory purchase order to build the Peakes Parkway in Grimsby.
The petitioners object to the purchase order and to the Peakes Parkway scheme because it builds a major road through a densely populated area; because the quiet location of the area was an incentive for them to purchase their homes in the first place; because the road will run 18 to 20 m from their front windows; because they will lose their front gardens to the road; because they fear for their health if the land is taken to build the new highway; and because the noise and pollution created would confine the elderly and bronchial sufferers to stay indoors.
They object also because they question the validity of the scheme—the cost has escalated from £7.5 million to £14 million in three years and will probably be £20 million at the end—and because they feel that the road is unnecessary.
The petition ends:
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Honourable House that the Order may not be brought into operation.
§ To lie upon the Table.