My wife and I have lived at Greville House on the Banbury Road since 1995 and have raised our four children there.Three of them have been educated at Warwick Schools and have walked to school.Kathi and I walk to the centre of Warwick every day.We are very aquatinted with the traffic pollution between our house near Bridge End and the centre of town.Each attempt by the council to accommodate the traffic has made the pollution worse as more vehicles bottle neck at the bridge.This will continue to get worse by widening the Banbury Road as the same bottle neck will remain as we live in a medieval pretty town not built for vehicles.
Similarly the new proposed development by Gallows Hill will make the problem worse and is also likely to cause flooding as the drainage in this area will be compromised.
Unfortunately we have little faith in the District Council to listen to the people of Warwick. The recent improvements to the High Street being a case in point when warnings about crossings and difficult barriers to negotiate by traffic have led to a worsening in Warwick than the original arrangements.
The Banbury Road and the Myton Road do not need more traffic which goes faster as they are both crossed regularly be children attending the schools. if anything the roads need a 20 mph limit.At present they are busy from 0800-0900 hrs and from 1600-1800hrs. This is a result of parents dropping/ collecting children at school and rat runners in the evening who shortcut the M40/ Warwick Bypass to get to homes not in Warwick.
There must be better sites for new homes and gypsy accommodation than a much visited medieval town such as Warwick.