Object

Representation ID: 4499

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Mrs E R Matthews

Object to housing sites south of Whitnash:
Request delay of not less than one year.Large body of public opposed, including those not immediately affected.
There will be more damage from financial crisis and little likelihood of improvement this decade.
Lack of school spaces and water supply.
Land south and south west of Whitnash developer driven and not electorally/local authority driven.
Reasons to delay:
Likely to be more developable land available at Coventry Airport, former Peugeot factory, North Leamington School, other land and redundant factories and areas more accessible to proposed Kenilworth station.
Further loss of employment opportunities and therefore inward migration.
Lack of consideration of intensely polluting, anti-environmental, detrimental, ecological effects and loss of good local amenity of current proposals.
Infrastructure problems - schools, bridges, access roads, flooding and lack of forethought and awareness of contemporary urban housing and transport developments in and beyond UK.
Need for genuinely affordable housing for existing local population.
Already too much new housing in wrongly designed, laid out and priced areas.
Lack of existence of organised voluntary committee of mixed local politician, expert advisor and informed community members involved in planning ahead acceptable housing and other developments in the locality.
Recognise that:
District council hamstrung by previous promises to and the pressures from at least four, profit-hungry developers looking for easy job in unsuitable land.
Dichotomy approach of WDC and WCC which sadly would be better constituted as a unitary authority.
By central govt. for last 8 years, producing short term policies.
Govt. currently discussing changes to local needs and development plans as a result of financial crisis and unparalleled levels of govt. debt.