Object

Revised Development Strategy

Representation ID: 54886

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Mrs Anne Buttrum

Representation Summary:

Too many houses south of the river with no infrastructure to support them. There are no hospital, fire or police services available there. There will not be enough doctors surgeries, primary or secondary schools. There are likely to be approximately 10,000 more cars driving in the local area but there are no plans to improve the crossings over the rivers Avon or Leam. This is bound to lead to even worse traffic congestion than currently exists, regardless of what your model comes up with. Furthermore, the towns of Warwick and Leamington are trying to encourage visitors to their shops So it is logical the volumes of traffic will increase even without this development.

Building all these new houses in one area will mean that the whole area will effectively become a giant building site for years to come. This is very unfair on all the people who already live and work here.

How many of the new houses will be bungalows? One of the worst problems with new housing developments is how they are all crammed into as small a space as possible and built upwards. This is why they always look so awful. Why not space them out a bit?

Full text:

I object to the new local plan for the following reasons:

There will be too many houses south of the river with no infrastructure to support them. There are no hospital, fire or police services available there. There will not be enough doctors surgeries, primary or secondary schools.

There are likely to be approximately 10,000 more cars driving in the local area but there are no plans to improve the crossings over the rivers Avon or leam. This is bound to lead to even worse traffic congestion than currently exists, regardless of what your model comes up with. Furthermore, the towns of Warwick and Leamington are trying to encourage visitors to their shops So it is logical the volumes of traffic will increase even without this development.

Building all these new houses in one area will mean that the whole area will effectively become a giant building site for years to come. This is very unfair on all the people who already live and work here.

My 76-year-old mother recently had to move to a bungalow due to mobility problems with climbing stairs. Could you let me know how many of the new houses will be bungalows? I think one of the worst problems with new housing developments is how they are all crammed into as small a space as possible and built upwards. This is why they always look so awful. Why not space them out a bit?