As residents of Hatton Park, we wish to object to the proposed 70 to 90 new homes planned for land adjacent to Hatton Park.

The Birmingham Road is already a nightmare in the I would like to say rush hour but hours is a more appropriate word. Traffic starts to build up from 7.30am and gets worse until 9.15am when providing there has been no accident on the M40 or A46 it eases. If an accident has occurred as quite frequently happens, then traffic can be queuing as far back as Five Ways Island. Queues starting at the Falcon pub in Hatton are quite common under normal circumstances. How are the roads supposed to cope with the extra cars that further housing in the area will bring? The proposal of an access to these new homes from the Birmingham Road opposite the Shell garage is quite frankly dangerous. When the queuing traffic has dispersed and is flowing normally the speed limit is often ignored. There have been fatalities on this stretch of road in the last four or five years, extra traffic will not help the situation.

The land proposed for the siting of these houses already has poor drainage which frequently causes flooding on the Birmingham Road. There is evidence, unconfirmed, admittedly of a disused sewage treatment area south of Smith's Covert, the cost of cleaning up this area would be incredibly costly to any developer. What guarantees are there that a clean up would be done properly? Developers can be notorious for going back on their word. You do not have to look any further than Hatton Park, where a village hall, shop, pub and doctor's surgery were promised at the planning stage. What materialised was a village hall and a very small shop. These are the sum total of the community facilities and not as written in the village overview of the local plan, "the village has a reasonable range of community facilities including a village shop and village hall".

The local schools are already full to capacity, no consideration seems to have been given as to where extra children from these homes are going to be schooled.

Smith's Covert is ancient woodland teeming with wildlife including bats, muntjac, badgers, foxes, woodpeckers and buzzards. The building of houses on this land will completely change their habitat . We also object to the fact that the greenbelt boundary is being changed to accommodate this proposal.

We hope our concerns and those of many other residents in the area will be given due consideration. The parish of Hatton does not need and cannot accommodate any further housing