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Revised Development Strategy

ID sylw: 57862

Derbyniwyd: 28/07/2013

Ymatebydd: Helen Johnson

Crynodeb o'r Gynrychiolaeth:

Environment and Urban Sprawl:
The current Local Plan bases most of the homes in the South of the District and would fill a vast area of rural and agricultural land between Warwick, Whitnash and Bishops Tachbrook.

Building here would just merge our built areas, making them a single suburban sprawl.

Currently there is a rolling landscape with far reaching views.

The proposed Country Park at the border of Bishops Tachbrook would be ineffective as the excessive new homes would be highly visible and the beautiful views we currently enjoy would disappear.

Traffic:
The majority of the housing is proposed to the South of the town centres and will have a massive impact on congestion making it even more severe at crossings over the canal, river and railway in the area where there is no available solution to the current infrastructure.

The current locations of this housing would encourage an even greater car- dependent culture, increasing traffic and worsening congestion on the two north and south routes through Leamington Spa and Warwick.

Impact on Bishops Tachbrook:
* There will be an increase in the traffic on the minor road through the village (Mallory Road) which is already used as a short cut by drivers trying to avid overloaded road network.

* Increased risk crossing a busier roads, whilst trying to access the village's facilities, impacting on current relative freedom and independence of children.


Air Quality:
* An increase in the amount of vehicles passing through will also increase the risk to the health of villager's especially the children with an increase of air pollution.

* The additional traffic generated from 12, 300 homes will have far reaching consequences for air quality, which is already below legally permitted levels in some streets in Warwick Town Centre and parts of Leamington.

* This would lead to long term health risks

* Will also have impact on local economy as tourism will be damaged.
* There would no longer be the beauty currently found in historic Warwick or the spa town of Leamington.

Infrastructure:
In theory there is funding for infrastructure, but in reality this could surely not be enough.

Services are stretched to capacity now so a further 12, 300 homes some perhaps with families living in them would push our healthcare facilities beyond breaking point.

At the time that Warwick Gates was built- a new school was promised. This never happened putting a further strain on the schools in the area. Now children from Bishops Tachbrook are no longer eligible for Myton School, they have to pass Myton School and carry on several miles further to Aylesford School

Quality of Life:
The proposals add up to a poorer quality of life and health for those who reside in the south of the District.

Alternatives:
There are better alternatives such as lower housing numbers to meet local need, a gradual releasing of land for development as and when demand grows, priority being given to use brown field sites nearer to schools, shops and railway stations, homes being built close to jobs and cooperating with other local councils instead of competing with them over development.

Testun llawn:

I am writing to raise my objections and concerns to the Warwick District Local Plan.

I am a resid...
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