In a letter dated 5 November to Adrian Eastwood, the Development Control Manager at Harborough District Council, Sir Edward Garnier, MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, made clear his objections to the Co-op’s application (13/01523/FUL), to build a crematorium and to site a woodland burial ground and a cemetery on its land between the Great Glen by-pass and the old A6 London Road. The MP wrote: “You will already have received objections based on the site itself and its proximity to two schools and residential properties, the inevitable traffic increase throughout the day and especially during the morning and afternoon school rush hours and the blight effect it will have on local property values. These are not merely formulaic objections but to my constituents concerns of genuine substance with which I agree. “I understand that the Highways Authority will not permit access to the proposed site from the by-pass so the traffic generated by the growing number of funerals every day will cause congestion in the village and possibly endanger the safety of pedestrians, particularly the children attending Leicester Grammar School and Stoneygate School right next to the proposed site. In short this is not a suitable site for a large complex with high volumes of traffic coming in and out of the site every day. I urge the Planning Committee to reject this application.” The full letter is attached.