Object
Revised Development Strategy
Representation ID: 53517
Received: 25/07/2013
Respondent: Mrs Tracey Gardner
We are resident in Lapworth Yew Tree Close, as residents we witness the daily struggle of the local roads to cope with the current amount of traffic to and from the schools, morning and afternoon. I have personally witness many accidents and near misses in this area due to the current volumes of people/cars on this road. The Old Warwick rd is already a very fast dangerous road passing through Lapworth where you will find children crossing the road blind from the small village shop, especially as the council have failed to provide adequate traffic calming measures. Another 100 houses means potentially an extra 200-400 residents all with cars. We fear Lapworth will no longer be a village but become an overspill of Solihull and will thus become a bigger drain on Council resources. On top of which the crime rate will rise, especially if there is social housing planned, and it already takes the Police force a far to long time to respond to incidents. As local residents who speak amongst the population of Lapworth I am sure 99% of the people are distraught over the idea that this area's very nice community will change forever!
We are resident in Lapworth Yew Tree Close, as residents we witness the daily struggle of the local roads to cope with the current amount of traffic to and from the schools, morning and afternoon. I have personally witness many accidents and near misses in this area due to the current volumes of people/cars on this road. The Old Warwick rd is already a very fast dangerous road passing through Lapworth where you will find children crossing the road blind from the small village shop, especially as the council have failed to provide adequate traffic calming measures. Another 100 houses means potentially an extra 200-400 residents all with cars. We fear Lapworth will no longer be a village but become an overspill of Solihull and will thus become a bigger drain on Council resources. On top of which the crime rate will rise, especially if there is social housing planned, and it already takes the Police force a far to long time to respond to incidents. As local residents who speak amongst the population of Lapworth I am sure 99% of the people are distraught over the idea that this area's very nice community will change forever!