Object

Preferred Options

Representation ID: 47599

Received: 14/06/2012

Respondent: Mr Paul Schaedel

Representation Summary:

Parking charges are too high and are driving trade from within the Town Centre

Full text:

I have read your booklet 'local plan' preferred options summary May 2012.
Could you please, advise me as to how you are going to allow all these housing builds to take place? Warwick A&E department cannot cope as it is, as on most nights, there is a 4 hour wait and most cases re sent to Coventry NHS Trust. Warwickshire fire and rescue service is now under its greatest stresses, due to cuts to retained officers. Warwickshire police cannot cope with the amount of incidents they are having to attend.
There is also a lack of schools and dentists.
As a council you cannot even maintain the roads to a reasonable standard. You need to get the town back to a standard so it is proud to call its self Royal Leamington Spa.
The bottom of town is known as the Bronx. Areas like Fallow Hill and Lillington are more important to make a community proud to live in. Stop letting the pound signs in your eyes ignore the deprived areas already existing.
This town cannot cope with the amount of new builds. You don't have any concern on how the cost of car parking has driven away no end of trade within the town with the rediculous car parking fees charged. In Coventry where I now choose to shop for most of the day, it costs me £1.50. You constantly ask the publics view, but take no interest in what they say and ignore there views. All you are interested in is how much as a council you can claim of the households. You have no concern on how the emergency services will cope or hospitals.
I suggest you look into this before agreeing to allow more housing builds. Are you going to consider, with the amount of houses you are planning to allow to be built, that there will be a large amount of children and youths who will have no where to go and nothing to do causing even more potential antisocial behaviour.
As a council, I have never known one to waste as much money as you do on the most ridiculous resources as you do, then complain you have no money.
It is widely recognised that a large percentage of council house tennants do not pay council tax, therefore leaving us taxpayers to make up the shortfall. As the majority of the community are taxpayers and non benefit claimants, we already bear the brunt of you're economic failures. What percentage of the residents of these new developments will not have put one penny into Britains economy but deem to meet your criteria