Whole area.
I am writing to object to the proposed development, particularly around the Grove farm, Lower Heathcote farm area, Bishops tachbrook and Whitnash areas.
It would destroy the rural feel and look of the whole area; one of the reasons I moved here in the first place; we were led to believe that this area was a green belt area and would not be built on.
There are houses in Warwick Gates that have been on the market for months if not years that are not selling, (and not all them large houses) so I do not understand why there is a need for more housing in the area.
I wonder where all these potential new residents will be finding jobs?; My daughter left university 2 years ago and was unemployed for 15 months as she could not find a job in the local area.
She took an unpaid internship in London for 3 months to gain experience and that in itself proved difficult with regards to transport and parking. She found it very difficult to find a parking space in leamington near to the train station and then found she often had to stand on the train as it was overcrowded.
She eventually found a job out of the area and has had to move as she found it took her too long to commute due to the heavy traffic and conjestion.
If there are no jobs in the local area, imagine the chaos on the roads when people are having to commute to their place of work or the alternative of more people on unemployment benefit??
As it is now I am unable to sleep with my windows open due to the noise of traffic on Harbury Lane; it would be unbearable to even sit in my garden if the traffic, noise and pollution levels were to increase due to the increase in volume of traffic.
There is a diverse range of wildlife in the area that would be destryed if the building work were to go ahead; I often get badges, foxes, birds such as field fares, waxwings and owls to name a few that visit my garden that have come from the Grove farm /lower heathcote area.
For the past several years I also have bats flying around my garden every evening in the summer months ; if their habitat is destroyed they will not return.
At the current time the schools and Gp surgery's are at capacity and the A/E dept at Warwick Hospital is struggling to cope with the demands of the local needs.
The roads in the local area are struggling to cope with commuting traffic at the moment so I can only imagine what it would be like if the housing development were to go ahead; the noise and pollution levels would be intolerable, not to mention the stress for the drivers and accident potentials leading to more demand on the local health care and emergency services.
Warwick town centre is very conjested at the moment, more housing means more conjestion; it would put potential tourists off visiting the area if they knew that they could not park easily; they would go elsewhere.