Object
Revised Development Strategy
Representation ID: 53901
Received: 28/07/2013
Respondent: Mr Meirion Morgan
The Hatton Park site is a parkland development built as far as I know within the old hospital grounds and it is surrounded by greenbelt land. To build additional houses in this location, apart from encroaching on greenbelt, which is valuable to society and standards of living, will place more pressure yet again on an already creaking infrastructure.
The Birmingham Road is already extremely busy and dangerous to cross/access and further housing with inevitable demands on school runs etc, when no facilities are on site, will add to the pressures.
There must be brownfield and other sites with less such pressures that could be prioritised.
The only possible sites that could be contemplated without impinging on the greenbelt are the two adjacent to the Birmingham Rd, but even with these, one still faces the busy road/infrastructure issue.
The Hatton Park site is a parkland development built as far as I know within the old hospital grounds and it is surrounded by greenbelt land. To build additional houses in this location, apart from encroaching on greenbelt, which is valuable to society and standards of living, will place more pressure yet again on an already creaking infrastructure.
The Birmingham Road is already extremely busy and dangerous to cross/access and further housing with inevitable demands on school runs etc, when no facilities are on site, will add to the pressures.
There must be brownfield and other sites with less such pressures that could be prioritised.
The only possible sites that could be contemplated without impinging on the greenbelt are the two adjacent to the Birmingham Rd, but even with these, one still faces the busy road/infrastructure issue.