Object
Preferred Options
Representation ID: 47776
Received: 25/07/2012
Respondent: Maxine Roberts
Object to development at Hampton Magna.
Strain on current infrastructure:roads and schools. Budbrooke school won't support.
Three roads access:
Main route through busy traffic lights. New houses will increase traffic from Warwick Parkway resulting in village parking, making it busier and causing safety issues.
Route through Hampton-on-the-Hill difficult due to on road parking and traffic calming. More traffic would put children cycling to school at risk.
The route over Ugly Bridge cannot take more traffic but people will use the lane resulting in accidents.
Best location would be ro Curleiu Close or field on Old Budbrooke Road by station.
I am writing to express my concern over the proposal for an additional 100 houses located in Hampton Maga. I have lived in the village for the last 9 years, having also lived here for 5 years as a child. My major concern regarding an additional 100 houses is the strain on the current infrastructure, especially the roads and the school. My daughter attended Budbrooke School and it is an excellent school however it will not maintain this if it gets too big. 100 new houses could potentially bring the same number of children and the school is just not big enough to cater for this. They struggle to fit in the full school in the main hall for an assembly as it is. It will spoil the charater and reputation of a school that I also attended and have very fond memories of.
The other issue, which is my main concern, are the roads. There are three roads out of this village:
1. The main route through the traffic lights, which gets extremely snarled up at busy times. More houses will mean more cars and make this junction even more of a nightmare. The location of the new houses may result in more traffic from Warwick parkway using the village for parking, making the village itself even busier and the safety issues more traffic causes.
2. The route through Hampton-on-the hill. This can be a nightmare as it is due to the parking on the road and the traffic calming. Encouraging more traffic to use this puts at risk those children who cycle to Aylesford School from the village. Full cycle lanes would have to be considered if these houses were built.
3. The land exiting over Ugly Bridge. This is certainly not a feasible option to take more traffic however an additional 100 houses will certainly mean more people using this lane. This will result is accidents. I use this lane on a daily basis as I travel to work near Birmingham Airport. How there has not already been a serious accident I struggle to understand however this will certainly change if more traffic is to use this lane.
Hampton Magna is a quiet and safe village for our children. I believe the infrasture will have to completely change in order to cater for more houses in order to maintain the safety of the poeple who live here. The best location, if there is such a thing, would be the fields directly next to the school, at the back of Curleiu Close and Daly Avenue or the field on Old Budbrooke Road by Warwick Parkway station, which would just be extending the village towards the station.