Object

Representation ID: 3609

Received: 08/09/2009

Respondent: Robin and Anne Tole

Object to Kings Hill site:
Access: Green Lane narrow and busy with parked cars on one side. Also has 20mph speed limit and speed bumps. More traffic and potential bus passengers leading to increase in frequency.Schools at either end so accident waiting to happen. Gretna Road is long, narrow cul-de-sac with vehicles parked both sides making negotiation difficult. Kings Hill Lane narrow country lane too difficult for large vehicles to negotiate. A46 and surrounding roads around Stoneleigh and traffic for University and Westwood Business Park already problem and additional traffic would cause bottlenecks on A45 and cut off at tiems near BP garage, juntion at end of Green lane and Kings Hill Lane.
Character: land is green belt and productive farmland. In highly built up area is important to retain. If space eroded between Coventry, Kenilworth and Leamington, they would join up and be one urban sprawl unable to keep separate identities.
Safeguard of Resouces: Local farmland is productive. Borehole near junction Green Lane and Gretna Road for water extraction becoming increasingly valuable.
Quality of Land: Kings Hill Lane prone to surface water and flooding. Finham Sewage Works situated on adjacent land resulting in smells especially in summer. Buildng would be close to and overlooked by elevated A46 and would result in air and noise pollution. Proximity to flight path for Coventry airport and noise pollution.
Social Factors: Schools are oversubscribed. Further building needed or more car journeys needed to take them to other Warwickshire schools. No facilities for children such as playgrounds. Bus service very limited. No local community facility, local shops inadequate. Would require even more building to provide these.
Precedent: Building on green belt could lead to simlar decisions resulting in gradual erosion of green belt. Not an extension of existing towns but a new centre for population a long distance from faciilities. Result coud be the transition of Coventry into a supercity through absorption of villages.