Object

Publication Draft

Representation ID: 64689

Received: 10/06/2014

Respondent: MRS Antoinette Sant Cassia

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

NO TO A PARK AND RIDE
Already a Park and Ride at Parkway
Sites on Green Belt not "Special Circumstances"
No dedicated buses so useless for workers and shoppers
Already enough car parks in North Leamington
Plan will fail and developers will come in.

Full text:

Leamington Spa is a small town and does not need another Park and Ride in the North. There is one already five minutes down the A46 at Parkway.There is also adequate parking in the town.
Worst of all the sites are on the Green Belt and a Park and Ride is definitely not by any stretch of the imagination "Special Circumstances".
The whole idea is flawed:
1.Sites earmarked are too close to the town centre and the Park and Ride will not be used nor will it reduce congestion.
2. No dedicated buses:Who is going to pay and wait maybe half an hour for a bus which may or may not take them near their place or work.
3.Inconvenient for shoppers who will also have to wait for a bus and then have to carry their shopping back on the bus.
4.There are already too many car parks in North Leamington with impervious surfaces which will contribute to flooding additionally all sites are on slopes.
This plan will fail, more Green Belt would have been destroyed and developers will come in by default. Maybe that is what you want but we definitely do not.