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Proposed Modifications January 2016

Representation ID: 68354

Received: 18/04/2016

Respondent: MRS Antoinette Sant Cassia

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Park and Ride not necessary
Enough car parks and parking places in town centre
Whole idea flawed
Destruction of Green Belt when there are definitely no special circumstances

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 drive away at Warwick Parkway. There is also adequate parking in the town.
Worst of all, these sites are on the Green Belt. 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 will not reduce congestion.
2. There will be no dedicated buses so who is going to pay and wait maybe half and hour for a bus which may or may not take them near their place of work.
3. It will be inconvenient for shoppers who will also have to wait for a bus and will have to carry their shopping on the bus.
4. there are already enough car parks and parking spaces in Leamington.
5. There are already enough car parks in North Leamington with impervious surfaces which contributes to flooding.
This Park and Ri8de will fail, as the one in Stratford on Avon has failed. More Green Belt will have been destroyed, and developers will come in by default.
Maybe that is what you want but we definitely do not.