Object
Proposed Modifications January 2016
Representation ID: 68161
Received: 05/04/2016
Respondent: Mr Clive Allen
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
This is a poorly thought out proposal to double the population in isolated area where the infrastructure barely copes at the moment. The council objectives show that there is very little interest in the logic of reason or common sense.
From what is understood, the reason for the planning proposed is because the land is open for sale. Irrational at best !
This proposal together with H27 and H21 is a planning proposal done on the cheap without infrastructure.
a) The sewerage and drainage system for Hampton Magna has always been known to be poor by the residents as a result of the original builders. Adding to this system creates additional worry and must surely put a burden on the existing systems.
b) Traffic to and from Hampton Magna has initially 2 roads going in the direction of Warwick and 1 road towards Birmingham.
The majority of the rush-hour current traffic can almost back-up from the Birmingham Road traffic lights to the Blanford Way (entrance) Hampton Magna. Doubling the current housing is obviously going impact and increase the traffic by as much again. There are no proposals for relief roads to ease congestion. What an oversight in planning!
The alternative road out of Hampton Magna towards Warwick is via Hampton-on-the-Hill. Unfortunately with the new housing developments of Chase Meadow, many cars use Hampton-on-the-Hill as a 'rat run' in an attempt to cut across to the Birmingham Road, heading towards Birmingham. One can imagine the devastation of twice the amount of dwellings in Hampton Magna using Hampton-on-the-Hill in order to travel towards Warwick or joining other network routes.
The proposal needs at least 2 additional roads to take traffic towards the Hampton Road A 4189. There is already a development i.e. football/rugby club with a road way that could be fostered. As for Hampton-on-the-Hill, it does not go unnoticed that the roads have deteriorating badly and that traffic calming measures are a frequent requests from the residents. Nevertheless this planned development to Hampton Magna will have a catastrophic effect upon the road through Hampton-on-the-Hill. Therefore the situation begs for at least two roads to run eastward towards the Hampton Road A 4189.
c) Doubling the population via this planning proposal means double the demand on the Budbrooke School and local doctor's surgery. Whilst I have no planning qualifications, anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence would see that the school and doctors surgery would be swamped. Again, the amount of traffic caused by parents dropping off children at the school would be double the nuisance factor that already exists. Warwickshire Police have said that they are not interested in dealing with these traffic issues so the situation can only get twice as bad.