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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Andy Pearce

I do not support the redevelopment of B1 site at Hatton and consider that other sites must be more suitable, given that the Hatton Station proposal certainly appears to be poorly thought through for the following principle reasons
1) No Provision has been made for the additional healthcare improvements required to service this proposed development. Warwick Hospital is already overwhelmed and there is no provision for any additional hospital facilities. This will impact the whole community in a detrimental manner long after the developers have departed. This development will completely swamp the current medical services both at primary and hospital settings, leaving all residents struggling healthcare services.
2) During the past twelve months the local infrastructure has failed with outages of Power, Water, Drainage and Broadband, the local systems are at full capacity, and will require infrastructure improvements to all systems in the area. To accommodate such a huge development as this proposal will require upgrades and increases in all systems: electric, gas, water, sewage and broadband. This will be disruptive, costly and will also have a huge ecological impact.
3) The loss of valuable pastureland which will severely impact our ability to provide food sources for both human and agricultural use. Not to mention the obvious harm to
wildlife with the loss of swathes of green pasture land.
4) The area being considered for this development already suffers from flooding. The Roads and drains are often flooded, and are currently surrounded by fields. The impact of the loss of this land by replacing it with concrete roads and 8000+ houses will greatly increase the extent of the flooding in this area.
5) We have utilised Hatton Railway Station on four occasions, the suggestion the site has been proposed due to it Railway station is laughable. Of the four occasions, on two off these occasions the service ran so late that it missed adjourning connections at Leamington Spa, and on another when returning from Birmingham, the service was cancelled and terminated at Dorridge Station. The ability to increase this will be hampered by the lack of land around the station to increase capacity. The access to Hatton Station is already challenging with a narrow access road and its proximity to the canal.
6) The roads around the area B1 are not suitable for such a huge development. They are often narrow, single track with passing points and with no pavement facilities for pedestrians. This development would require huge infrastructure upgrades to these roads to make them safe for all roads users. This would inevitably require many additional land purchases from many landowners making this development very hard to deliver on budget, on time and would require negotiating with many landowners.
7) Station Road itself, does not allow any parking opportunities and is only just passible for two vehicles, it has no pavements, numerous pot holes, and properties on both sides, the bridge outside the station entrance over the canal and railway line is currently a danger to anybody walking on station road, it cannot cope with increased traffic without endangering people further.
In summary, poor transport links, inadequate infrastructure, poor roads, loss of Greenbelt and farming land, swamped healthcare, Hatton B1 cannot be the preferred development site.