Object

Revised Development Strategy

Representation ID: 52467

Received: 18/06/2013

Respondent: Mr. Peter Rolfe

Representation Summary:

The envisaged increase in housing and employment is going to further exacerbate the traffic situation in Warwick town centre. You should not be allowing any expansion until you have sorted that out.

Full text:

Yet again you are ducking the issue of Warwick town centre being used as a through route by heavy vehicles and enormous numbers of cars. Your proposal to add thousands of new houses to the district can only make this even worse. It is my belief that you have no idea what to do and, in successive iterations of the plan, you ignore it and hope it will go away. You are proposing to improve Gallows Hill/Banbury Road and the Castle hill roundabout but that is just going to funnel even more traffic into Jury Street/The Butts/Smith Street.
Today (18th June) High street was blocked for a good 10 minutes because 2 large lorries were stuck in opposite directions on one of those stupid raised junctions you have put in.
You should not be sanctioning any new housing until you have sorted this out.
My personal suggestion is to enforce the weight limit that you already have (but do not enforce) by putting width restrictions at either end of the town and to extend the existing one way in Smith St up Jury St and High St with the Butts as the other direction.