Object
Revised Development Strategy
Representation ID: 53714
Received: 27/07/2013
Respondent: Mrs Margaret Ellis
I object to the plan on the grounds that I do not accept the need for
12,000 new house in the District. The infrastructure is not capable of
support such a development even if you tweak the roads there will still be
traffic chaos.
The will be a huge impact on pollution, schools and the hospital.
Good agricultural land will destroyed while smaller brownfield sites are
vacant.
This plan has been put together to suit developers not the needs of the
local population.
I dispute the need for 12,000 houses in Warwick District as independent
sources indicate less than 6,000 required and ask what is in it for the
council to build so many houses.
Such a massive development would turn the historic town of Warwick into an
urban sprawl.
The already overstretched infrastructure cannot cope with what would be a
massive increase in traffic, being out of town most people would have a
car, working couples possibly two. The road bottlenecks at Castle Hill and
the viaduct cannot cope with thousands of extra vehicles.
I dispute that no building can take part on the green belt to the north as
the council have already allowed green belt land to to be included in the
Gateway project.
I object to large areas of farmland being built on as this will have a
serious impact on wildlife with the removal of hedges.
There also a serious risk of flooding in the Aragon Drive / Saumur Way area
if the adjacent farmland is cleared.
Allowing traffic to access any new building behind Saumur Way will increase
the risk to the many school children who use the cycle path that runs past
the proposed development.
The council is being less than open about the developments as the plan
calls for 12,000 homes but only 6,000 identified so far. With no building
in the North of the district the other 6,000 can only be built in the South
but WDC have been evasive when asked the question about this