Support
Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundaries
Representation ID: 61721
Received: 20/01/2014
Respondent: Mrs Val Gatfield
-Do not consider any of the sites as suitable for further development but where additional housing is compulsory, Site 1 would appear the most suitable.
-All sites will lead to traffic congestion in the village but there is already a pedestrian access across the Southam Road by controlled lights to allow school children to cross and other village amenities to be reached. There is no suitable crossing place for sites 2 or 3 and even widening the pavement would not be possible at the point between Hill Cottage and Apple Tree Cottage.
-Being a regular pedestrian on this stretch, I can vouch for the speed and volume of traffic, even within the 30mph limit.
-Site 1 is also an infill to the village without breaching current boundaries extending unnecessarily into the Green Belt. No further large development of the village is satisfactory in traffic safety terms.
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