I am writing to object about the new local plan for over 7000 houses to be built in Warwick.
We live and work in Warwick and it currently takes me an hour in the morning in the evening to make a 2 mile round trip from my home at Ward Grove, off the Myton Road, to my daughter's nursery on Heathcote Lane, my son's school (Coten End on Emscote Road) and my work (Warwickshire County Council on Barrack Street). This is both costly in terms of fuel - at a time where our family budget is very restricted - and time consuming and stressful. It also creates significant pollution which could harm my children's health.
Furthermore, my son's school - Coten End - is also massively oversubscribed even now, and will be expanded this year from 60 to 90 children in each year. It goes without saying that this means less 1:1 time for teachers to spend with young children at the start of their education, and very crowded lunch halls, sports fields and assemblies.
Our local doctors (Cape Road) has had to close its books as it is over-subscribed, and our local hospital - Warwick - is relatively small, and cannot cater for such a massive population increase.
Building a significant amount of new housing in Warwick will significantly increase these problems and make Warwick a very unpleasent place to live for families. I am also not sure why houses need to be built on greenfield sites where there are a number of run down industrial estates in the area which are unsightly and would be better served being knocked down and built upon.