I am writing to express my concerns and objections regarding the proposed development of approx. 6000 houses to the south of warwick over the next 15 years. I think this needs to be reviewed as it it will have a significant detrimental affect on the lives of many local warwick and Leamington residents.

Firstly i question the numbers of houses considered necessary and would like to see what evidence there is to support this claim. Secondly the infrastructure would need to be significantly improved to cope with the number of cars on the roads, the number of people requiring educational and health services. How is the ongoing cost of this to be met? Locating all the development in one area that already struggles with the existing amount of traffic seems ludicrous. Myton road, europa way, banbury road and the M40 junction into Leamington struggles as it is at certain times of the day. This surely cannot cope with any further increased traffic.

My biggest concern which i feel the council needs to address, is the state of the air pollution in and around the warwick district. This i understand to be already at potentially dangerous levels with scientific evidence now confirming a link with poor air quality and asthma, COAD and lung cancer. Increasing the traffic all in one area is likely to significantly impact this further and potentially create a public health problem. The council has a statutory duty to look after our health, not make it worse. If this goes ahead and people do starting getting ill, the council may face lawsuits as this problem has been highlighted. Two large local schools are situated along Myton road with students walking/cycling to school and this cannot be good for their future health breathing in all the pollution.

I also feel the council will be taking the easy option for them in agreeing to the developers wish to develop the land to the south of warwick. Why not force developers to redevelop all brownfield sites in the district and bring back all the empty homes into use before destroying virgin countryside. Once the landscape has been changed it is impossible to return it to its original beauty. If further housing is then still required it should be spread around the district so as not to overload a particular local areas infrastructure. Affordable homes are required and this is not going to be achieved by big developers building on virgin land. They want to build nice, big expensive houses to make as much profit as possible out of the site.

What attracts people to warwick/leamington is the fact that it isn't a sprawling suburban area. It has lovely countryside approaches to the town centres and they are still distinctly separate towns.

I hope the council will think carefully before agreeing to anything that we may all come to regret in the future.