* The DLP generates significant traffic movements through Bishops Tachbrook parish most acutely along the B4087 Oakley Wood Road & into Tachbrook Road.
* The predicted increase in peak time traffic along B4087 Oakley Wood Road is 75% which is the highest in the district. This figure does not include the impact of SDC's Gaydon/Lighthorne development. It is not clear from STA4 that the duty to cooperate has been exercised.
* The village of Bishop's Tachbrook, with ca 720 homes, is already subject to considerable through traffic at peak times. The STA has not measured traffic movements on Mallory Road. The effect of having these 2 main road running through the village is that the community is physically split into 3 sections. There are no measures to address this, nor to deal with the increase that will arise from having so many more cars in this area.
* There is a well-documented speeding problem through the village on the B4087 Oakley Wood Road and Mallory Road. Pedestrians, including school children, wishing to cross Oakley Wood Road and Mallory Road are at huge risk at peak times.
* None of the 27 measures contained in DLP STA 4 will directly mitigate the negative impacts of the huge increase in traffic movements on the people of Bishops Tachbrook, parish specifically:
1. Health and wellbeing with respect to congestion, road safety / speeding, air pollution, noise pollution and vibration, particularly along Oakley Wood Road.
2. Community cohesion - the increased isolation of the Savages Close / East side area from the village due to the huge increase in traffic along Oakley Wood Road effectively cutting them off. Likewise the separation between north and south sides of Mallory Road. The Safer Route to School has not been completed.
3. Degradation of the historic environment along the Oakley Wood Road conservation area and vibration damage to listed buildings.
* The DLP proposes 4,750 houses to be built in this southern part of the District. It is our key point in this submission that there may be no combination of mitigation measures that can address the challenge of such a large housing development in such a constrained area. The STAs fail to provide clear evidence that the traffic measures will be effective. An example of the challenge is that despite Europa Way being upgraded to dual carriageway, Oakley wood Road which runs parallel only a mile to the east is expected to experience a traffic increase of 75%. This increase will inevitably feed through to Tachbrook Road and so into south Leamington urban area ending at the constricting railway bridge. The STAs do not include any mitigation measures to deal with this.