Appendix 1 - Objection Letter - Caroline Carter

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SPR STL
From: Caroline Carter
Sent: 31 August 2024 08:49
To: SPR STL
Subject: 13 Grey Row Ruthvenfield - short term let application
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Good morning,
I am wrifing to express my concern regarding the short term let applicafion for number 13. Grey Row, is a row of 20
flats, ten on the ground floor and ten on the first floor. It’s one building, in a row. We are a small community, living in
a relafively close space. Our gardens are allotment style, accessed via a lane behind the building. As such, the
prospect of having strangers moving around our community space is disconcerfing and potenfially disrupfive. I
believe that having number 13 as a short term let will negafively affect the character of our property and community.
A key concern is the sepfic tank. Our properfies are old and so the pipes and sepfic tank are suscepfible to blockages.
Visitors may not take the care needed and we are worried about issues that are likely to arise with inappropriate use.
Signage in the bathroom may be proposed to mifigate this risk, but visitors will not necessarily adhere to signage.
The road and sepfic tank system are private to the Row, it is our responsibility as the community for the upkeep.
Unblocking the system is a parficularly unpleasant task, and potenfially expensive for us as residents.
Lastly, I would like to highlight the locafion of the nofice; it was rather out of the way. It was located on a pole about
100 m from number 13. It was off the road, so to read it one needed to step up onto the grass verge. We could easily
have missed this nofificafion.
Regards,
Dr Caroline Carter
15 Grey Row, Ruthvenfield