Object
Revised Development Strategy
Representation ID: 54124
Received: 29/07/2013
Respondent: Mr Edward Hutchinson
Strongly object to the development based on my above reasoning. To summarise,
- Huge increase in traffic congestion into and out of the village and onto the main road by Stanks roundabout.
- Increased pressure on already stretched village resources like Dr's and school.
- Loss of character and community spirit.
Please see 'Representation' for my complete reasons.
I have been a resident of Hampton Magna for 31 years and have seen quite a drastic change over that time, and not always for the better, in light of this I strongly object to the proposed development at Hampton Magna.
My reasons being;
- Traffic volume has increased massively over recent years with the development of Hatton Park and Warwick Parkway to a point where it now takes a lot longer to get in and out of the village at all times of the day.
- Our village, and Warwick as a whole are starting to lose their identity, the urban sprawl in recent years has blurred the lines between the boundary of Warwick and the surrounding villages. Is it your aim to have one unsightly mass of houses that will all be known collectively as Warwick with little to no green belt?
- Our village infrastructure struggles to cope as it is with a lot of residents from Hatton Park using our GP surgery, making it difficult to get an appointment without at least a weeks wait, and other village amenities, the addition of another 100+houses will just kill off the effectiveness of these valuable local services.
- The proposed houses will not do anything to help local first time buyers who may wish to stay in the village, they will most likely be aimed at commuters from London and completely price locals like myself (age 31) out of the market, as a result I feel the village will lose it's charm and community spirit.
- The local lanes (Church Lane etc) already experience more traffic than they can take, the resulting poor state of the road surface bears testament to this, increasing the number of houses/cars in the village will only make matters far worse and probably result in more traffic collisions as people 'rat run'.
I didn't object to Warwick parkway at the time, had I known it would have been used a few years down the line as a catalyst for more development I, and many other villagers, would have strongly objected.
I trust these points will be taken into consideration before our village is damaged further by reckless and needless developments.