Dear Sirs,
I live on the Chase Meadow Estate, which as you know, is a modern
development, blighted by lack of off road car parking space, for both
residential and commercial areas.
Whose fault is it that buses often have to weave down the wrong side of
the road in Goggbridge Lane?
Was this done by design, or did it happen by accident?
Similarly, the planned bus service had to be curtailed because buses
could not even get through certain roads.
Was this not foreseen?
These factors I have to live with, but they do not fill me with
confidence about the planning concerning the Gipsy/Traveller sites.
In an ideal world we would all like to have plenty of car parking space
space and convenient public transport, but just recently the bus service
to the estate has been radically curtailed. The X17 used to arrive
every 15 minutes and go via Warwick town centre, to Warwick hospital.
But now the X17 doesn't even come onto the estate, and it is now two bus
rides to the hospital. I understand the financial constraints, and, like
others, I have to live with the inconvenience and amend my travelling
arrangements accordingly.
Since the Prime Minister assures us that "We are all in this together!",
I wonder (in the interests of fairness) if the same quality of foresight
and inconvenience will apply to the siting and planning of the
Gipsy/Traveller sites.
When the M25 was opened it catered for a need and then created an even
greater need. How confident are you that the provision of another 31
sites in the area will not simply create a demand for even more sites?
If modern estates are designed with the intention of driving cars off
the road, thereby reducing demand for parking (fat chance!!) then that
sort of planning and social engineering should apply across the board,
and inconvenience should be shared around all new developments.
After all "We're all in this together!"