Object

Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundaries

Representation ID: 61279

Received: 20/01/2014

Respondent: David Neil Williams

Representation Summary:

-Facilities at Hatton Park are limited (small shop, village hall and children's playground). They are inadequate for further expansion.
-The Birmingham Road regularly floods from surface water run-off from the existing estate and poses highway danger.
-The Birmingham Road is extremely dangerous and the section that abuts the estate has above average number of fatal car accidents during the past 5 years.
-The junction alongside the Shell garage leading to Ugly Bridge is dangerous and poses the risk of a major accident if no road improvements are undertaken.
-Environmental passage routes to the covert will be lost at Smith' Covert.

Full text:

I wish to register an objection to the preferred option of further development of the Hatton Park Estate. My objections are based on the following issues:
1 The facilities on Hatton Park are very limited to that of a small shop, village hall and children's playground and remain inadequate for any further expansion.
2 There is regular flooding of the Birmingham Road as a result of surface water run-off from the existing estate. This flooding poses an extreme danger to traffic
3 The main Birmingham Road that runs alongside the estate is extremely dangerous with the four mile stretch of the road that abuts the estate having an above average number of fatal car accidents during the past 5 years.
4 In particular the junction alongside the Shell garage leading to Ugly Bridge is very dangerous and one can foresee a major accident occurring here if no road improvements are undertaken
5 The ancient woodland of Smith's Covert will be adversely affected by the development as environmental passage routes to the covert will be lost.

I would appreciate acknowledgement of my objection and a record made within your administrative systems