Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to object to the proposed application for 70-90 houses around Hatton Park nearby Charingworth Drive/Birmingham Road.

That many dwellings in that area of land is preposterous and I do not believe the builders would stop at 70-90 houses and will simply want to build and build until all the rural land is consumed and Hatton is no more than a suburb of Warwick.

As well as providing a serious eye-sore to the landscape the continued building in this area will cause significant issues to the supporting facilities (there are no nearby shops except 1 small corner shop, limited capacity of Ferncombe primary school).

When I moved to Hatton in 2000 the school was about to be closed and my son attended Ferncombe which had a class of about 15 pupils made up of Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 altogether. When my eldest daughter was going to attend in 2003 the intake exceeded 30 pupils for Reception, the school was incapable of handing this volume and needed significant increases in resources. The continued expansion of Hatton Park by builders is not proportional to the surrounding facilities to support the builders' profiteering.

Given the various other sites that are available in the local area, I cannot believe the council would seriously consider this application.

Furthermore, I understand other sites have been proposed with 250 houses and have been declined (eg. South of Gallows Hill, Warwick) so why are the council considering this.

I feel as though houses are trying to be placed in every single bit of countryside in and around Hatton.
Having lived here for 13 years I got tired for 10 years of continuing living on a building site as phase after phase of different builders built and built on Hatton exploiting the rural landscape to the maximum. Each house getting more and more compressed, smaller and smaller gardens to the point where people now appear to be living on top of each other.

This appears another builder trying to do so the same by starting another phase of the Hatton build. Where will it end ? When they have built right upto the A46 ?

There must be so much more alternative plots , the re-claimed plot where travellers once were on Browley Green Lane ? Warwick Gates ? Or the land just off Junction 15 of the M40 ? I cannot believe these are not more viable than packing more and more people into Hatton Park ?

One moment the British Waterways are cleaning up the Canal and ensure that Hatton provides a level of attraction to locals for the walks and the countryside, the next Builders want to maximise profits by building more and more houses, soon there will be no lovely fields near my house, it will just be a labyrinth of roads and mazes of houses. I have seen this happen in Solihull with Monkspath and Hillfield and it has destroyed any village and social community and creates simple a giant housing estate.

Where are the plans to balance the building with community buildings, shops, facilities ? It is simply a revenue and profit based exercise by builders until there is nothing left.