H53 - Hatton Park - Brownley Green Lane

This is green belt land that is good farming land. It is used for farming and enhances the rural nature of the Hatton park development. It provides a natural boundary with the estate and countryside. Building on this opens the rest of the fields nearby to a similar fate. This is prime green belt.

Extra traffic through Hatton Park or down Brownley Green Lane will have a detrimental effect on the quality of the roads in the area, on the lives of existing residents and cause further congestion on the A4177 which is already very busy.

I object on basis of 1) green belt - ecological damage in an area populated by hawks, pheasant, sheep, badgers...; 2) insufficient infrastructure to cater for increased population and traffic to from Warwick / A46 or A4177 Birmingham Road; 3) impact on schools which are already turning places away for local residents (Leek Wootton, Ferncombe, Budbrooke) with families having to go further out of area for schooling; 4) Barcheston Drive school bus pick-up drop-off already overloaded to point of significant safety risk; 5) spoiled outlook for established residents who bought into an area surrounded by green belt.

I object on basis of 1) green belt - ecological damage in an area populated by hawks, pheasant, sheep, badgers...; 2) insufficient infrastructure to cater for increased population and traffic to from Warwick / A46 or A4177 Birmingham Road; 3) impact on schools which are already turning places away for local residents (Leek Wootton, Ferncombe, Budbrooke) with families having to go further out of area for schooling; 4) Barcheston Drive school bus pick-up drop-off already overloaded to point of significant safety risk; 5) spoiled outlook for established residents who bought into an area surrounded by green belt.

H53 - Hatton Park - Brownley Green Lane

I do not consider that planning guidance has been followed for access to this site. Barcheston Drive is the only way to access this site and this would involve placing a new road junction beside the local village hall car park and children's play area. The difference in levels and a whopping 8% gradient to the road would be unsafe.

Increase traffic and lack of infrastructure to cope with increased traffic.
No health care, school provision with plans and only a very small convenience store to service the entire estate.

Plans go against local residents wishes for no further development of Hatton Park. Increased traffic on Birmingham road to access site. No provision for schools, health care or leisure facilities.

The proposed development is part of the greenbelt. Why has the greenbelt been pushed aside for this development? The reasons that the greenbelt was originally created are still valid.

Local services are already overstretched in respect of road infrastructure and safety, education, health etc. What thought has been given to this?

Reference to the site as 'Brownley Green Lane' is misleading as access cannot be made from here. If this site is to be accessed via Barcheston Drive then consideration needs to be given to the fact that these are housing estate roads with traffic calming which will not be suitable for delivery vehicles.

Also this will necessitate removing parking from the Hatton Park village Hall which is already inadequate.

The terrain is not suitable due to the erosion that will be caused by building 55 houses on such steep slope. Egress will be difficult through Winderton Avenue and will add to the problems for vehicles trying to get onto the A4177 at the roundabout from Chesterton Drive further down. Lack of schooling will necessitate greater morning traffic to get children to school. Wildlife habitats will be destroyed by the density of housing and health problems will ensue from additional traffic pollution. Canal-side re-generation will be impossible due to overpopulation of the area upsetting the balance between humans and wildlife.

1. The proposed location of this development is not effective and completely unsuitable
2. INFRASTRUCTURE:-
I) access to H53 is proposed along Barcheston Drive within the existing Hatton Park estate. This access route is totally unsuitable both for the construction traffic during the years of building and also for the additional traffic of 50-100 cars which would come with the new development. This would create a very real health and safety risk to all residents and especially to the children using the existing playground adjacent to the proposed entry to the site
ii) Access to the site would be very steep and hardly feasible. It is only meters from an existing village hall and playground (the only playground on the estate) which does not make it in any shape or form a viable entry point. Children currently play freely there and can't be put at danger nor can they be deprived of their only play area space on the estate
iii) The Birmingham Road is a major road and is already very congested throughout the day especially at peak times. The additional construction and residential traffic resulting from this proposal could not be absorbed in the current road network without creating major traffic disruptions
iv) There is no school, medical centre, supermarket or other facilities on Hatton Park which will simply overload existing infrastructure if more houses are now constructed in this space
3. I have not been presented with any evidence justifying the "special circumstances" of encroaching onto the green belt on Brownley Green Lane. Have all other brown field sites really already been used up?
4. H53 is a highly visible site impacting a large number of surrounding houses. this development would have a massive impact during construction (noise, unsightly) and after construction (traffic, congested infrastructure) and would negatively impact both the environment and also the overall value of the investments which existing residents have made

1. The proposed location of this development is not effective and completely unsuitable
2. INFRASTRUCTURE:-
I) access to H53 is proposed along Barcheston Drive within the existing Hatton Park estate. This access route is totally unsuitable both for the construction traffic during the years of building and also for the additional traffic of 50-100 cars which would come with the new development. This would create a very real health and safety risk to all residents and especially to the children using the existing playground adjacent to the proposed entry to the site
ii) Access to the site would be very steep and hardly feasible. It is only meters from an existing village hall and playground (the only playground on the estate) which does not make it in any shape or form a viable entry point. Children currently play freely there and can't be put at danger nor can they be deprived of their only play area space on the estate
iii) The Birmingham Road is a major road and is already very congested throughout the day especially at peak times. The additional construction and residential traffic resulting from this proposal could not be absorbed in the current road network without creating major traffic disruptions
iv) There is no school, medical centre, supermarket or other facilities on Hatton Park which will simply overload existing infrastructure if more houses are now constructed in this space
3. I have not been presented with any evidence justifying the "special circumstances" of encroaching onto the green belt on Brownley Green Lane. Have all other brown field sites really already been used up?
4. H53 is a highly visible site impacting a large number of surrounding houses. this development would have a massive impact during construction (noise, unsightly) and after construction (traffic, congested infrastructure) and would negatively impact both the environment and also the overall value of the investments which existing residents have made

This proposal needs to consider very carefully the access facilities.

Reasons for removing this land from the greenbelt aren't sufficient. Proposed density is too dense. HP residents recently, at a great expense, refurbished the village hall car park--the proposal is to rip through this, turning the car park into a street. Safety of children at the adjacent playground will be compromised. The dip/decline of the proposed land is too steep. Too much pressure on local amenities (schools, Warwick Hospital, GPs). Too much traffic on the Birmingham Road (it's already at a standstill eastbound outside HP during rush hour). Insufficient public transport--one bus into town per hour if you're lucky.

1. The development requires that the Village Hall car park and the playground must be adversely affected to facilitate a new main access. This area, including the newly planted orchard, provides a safe and pleasant haven for families to spend recreational time.
2. The developments size and aspect compared to the existing housing on Barcheston Drive is disproportionate and will therefore adversely affect the environmental setting.
3. Along with the other Hatton Park development (125 houses) proposal to the south, the overall affect upon Hatton Park will be markedly higher as a proportion of the existing housing than any other in the district and will have a huge impact on roads, traffic, local amenities as well as the non-tangible environmental aspects.

Site H53 - Brownley Green Lane

Preparation - Site H53 was not previously included in the Local Plan by WDC and, therefore, we believe that there has not been proper consultation with the local community concerning this particular site.

Soundness - Site H53 lies within the green belt boundary. This should only be changed in "exceptional circumstances". We do not believe that this condition has been met for this site.

A Housing Needs Survey for the Parish of Hatton in which Hatton Park is located, was carried out in 2014. This was an extensive survey which highlighted the need for 12 dwellings. These findings, suggest that development of H53 for a proposed 55 homes is not needed, therefore not sustainable and certainly not demonstrating exceptional circumstances for removing the land from the Green Belt. The smaller number of houses identified as needed by the Parish survey could easily be developed within windfall and brownfield sites.

The Green Space team from Warwick District Council has very recently notified us that some of the grassland at Hatton Park has been designated a Local Wildlife Site. This follows surveying carried out by Warwickshire County Council in 2014 and 2015. After Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Local Wildlife Sites are the most important. The survey found 99 species of vascular plants, five of which are notable in Warwickshire. It also recorded ten species of butterfly, a high number for a relatively built up area. A Peregrine Falcon and Hobby were observed hunting overhead. The question has to be asked, what detrimental effect will there be on these wildlife sites, supposedly classed as important by WDC and WCC, from the proposed development in Hatton Park?

Hatton Park Residents' Association (HPRA)

For the record, Hatton Park is an estate of houses created on the brownfield site of the previous Hatton Psychiatric Hospital. The estate has a very small family run shop, a small police post and no other significant amenities except a village hall sited together with its car park, a child play area and a fenced netball/football court. The land, the village hall and its car park were gifted to the HPRA in 2003 under the S106 requirement by Bovis Homes and AC Lloyd. There is no school or doctors surgery nearby. Hatton Park is not a village in any sense of the word; it is a housing estate with only two points of vehicular access onto the A 4177.

The village hall and its dedicated car park are owned and operated by the HPRA which is a registered charity of which all committee members are the trustees. The charity has recently resurfaced the car park at a cost of £25,000 which included contributions from the National Lottery Fund and the Rural West Community Forum.

Hatton Park Village Hall is located at the edge of the Hatton Park estate directly adjacent to the proposed H53 site. It looks out over the site below and the
proposed access to H53 would run through the existing hall car park and its current access to Barcheston Drive. The proposed road entrance and exit to the
development is adjacent to the only play area on Hatton Park, which consists of a fenced netball/football court, and the young childrens' play area.

The proposed H53 amendment local plan is not sound because:

* The proposed access and egress from Barcheston Drive to the H53 site will be through land owned by the HPRA. The ownership of this land has not been mentioned in any documents or communications relating to H53 nor has there been any communication from WDC and we are not willing to sell.

* Developing this site in the manner proposed will cause a very significant loss of amenity to the Village Hall, child play area and fenced netball/football court.

* Moreover, these are the only such play areas on the entire Hatton Park estate and their access point will be the road carrying construction traffic to and from the H53 site. This poses significant traffic-related safety issues both during and after the construction phase.

* Demolition and relocation of the Village Hall car parking and access will have a significant and detrimental affect on the overall amenity of our Village Hall and significantly affect its use for family events such as wedding receptions, birthday parties and other community events. This will have a serious impact on the financial viability of the Hall.

* Furthermore, during the construction phase of H53 with construction traffic using the access within a few metres of the Village Hall building, it is highly unlikely the charity would be able to rent out the Village Hall to the community while this development work was going on. This will increase the likely financial loss to the charity and loss of amenity to the current community living at Hatton Park.

I do not believe that development of these areas, when the infrastructure is already severely under strain can in any way show that these plans have been positively prepared.
In my previous objection, which I assume is still on record, I wrote of the virtually impossible task of getting into and through Warwick on a weekday basis without leaving Hatton Park at a ridiculous hour in the morning. This is still the case, as is the utter gridlock which occurs whenever there is an accident on the M40 or A46, which frequently happens. Plans to put traffic lights on the Stanks roundabout to relieve the congestion of cars exiting the A46 for Warwick, will in no way help the queue of traffic on the Birmingham Road which, at various times in the peak travel hours sees traffic backed up to Five Ways Island, a distance of some three miles or more.
My previous comments relating to the number of accidents that have occurred on the Birmingham Road, two local schools which are already full, despite recent expansion of one, overburdened doctors surgeries and local hospital remain relevant.

H28 in particular is prone to flooding during heavy spells of rain and badly holds surface water. It has been stated, that any potential developer would have to satisfy the Environment Agency of their plans to satisfactorily rectify this problem prior to development, in order not to cause future problems. This however does not inspire confidence. It is frequently reported in the news where new homes have been built on similar pieces of land and due to shoddy groundwork regularly flood, with the residents paying the price.

A survey conducted by our local Parish Council identified the need for a small number of homes within the parish, this number was under 20. It was felt that these homes could be provided by building on Brownfield and windfall sites. The survey was well prepared with a high percentage of residents responding. In the time that has elapsed since the survey, no huge changes in the area have taken place. The sudden inclusion with no prior notification of H53 within the plan, along with an increased number of houses for H28, bringing the number of proposed new homes for Hatton Park to 175, which do not appear to be needed, cannot justify or show exceptional circumstances for removing these parcels of land from the Greenbelt.

I do accept the need for further housing but only when plans have been well prepared and thought out. What is happening in Warwickshire seems to be neither. The destruction of Greenbelt without demonstrating exceptional circumstances flies in the face of the Governments' own policy. No further building work should be allowed throughout much of Warwickshire and certainly not in the immediate Warwick Town area. The existing traffic problems need to be acknowledged, a sensible long term plan for dealing with major traffic increase along with other infrastructure problems needs to be produced. Foisting thousands of new homes into an area and then attempting (or not) to deal with the resulting problems is madness.

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I wish to register my objections to the above revised

1 My prime strong objection is to the loss of Green Belt land for future generations , when more suitable sites exist.

2 Infrastructure is not in place for these new homes and we are told that this does not take place until after the homes are built. Not much planning there then.

3 The land proposed for 120 houses H28 has been flooded for most of this winter, and has flooded in previous years.

4 I am assured that local schools cannot cope with increased numbers, and from what I read in the local press, neither can the local Hospitals.

My last concern is the pollution which will come from the further traffic levels on A4177

Please listen to local people, and put forward our concerns.

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Lack of soundness and effectiveness

I am concerned that very little attention has been paid to the infrastructure needs required to complement the scale of development being proposed.

There appears to be a lack of credible planning for schools, highways and healthcare, particularly for developments in more rural areas.
What little detail there is seems to show that developments will not benefit local people. In fact development is more likely to adversely affect existing communities and diminish existing quality of life.
For example, there will need to be increased travel and higher vehicular movements to transport children to extended schools on already severely congested roads.
Hatton Park is a case in point. Surely it would be better for WDC to plan for a new school on the site along with development of sites H28 and H53 which would provide a far more sustainable option for existing and future residents as this would increase social cohesion and reduce the need to travel?

The town of Warwick seems to be already under great strain from recent surrounding housing development. The plan puts unsustainable pressures on already stretched healthcare and transport systems.

The plan as proposed is not effective and needs far better infrastructure planning for it to become credible.

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