Object
Revised Development Strategy
Representation ID: 54934
Received: 10/07/2013
Respondent: Mr & Mrs Peter & Doreen Ritchie
Population:
Local requirements are under 6000 houses but the WDC want over 12,000. The District Council would like to take a large area of farmland, apparently so they can concrete over all land not built on already, thus creating an enormous housing estate with insufficient schools,hospital beds, drains and sewers and other vital substructures. There would be too many houses with inadequate public facilities.
This is a letter of objection to the new local plan. Our objections are on two main grounds.
Population. Local requirements are under 6000 houses but the WDC want over 12,000. TheDistrict Council would liketo take a large area of farmland, apparently so they can concrete over all land not built on already, thus creating an enormous housing estate with insufficient schools,hospital beds, drains and sewers and other vital substructures. There would be too many houses with inadequate public facilities.
Traffic: There are already serious traffic problems in a number of places.It remnains to be seen how traffic problems in various parts of this huge proposed development are dealt with. Part of the proposed WDC solution is to have yet more tricky roundabouts working in partnership with traffic light crossroads. Are they expected to overcome not only existing problems but new ones as well?