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ID sylw: 105939

Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Vanessa McBride

The canal and its environs are a tourist attraction because of their beauty, peace and wildlife. We see otters, cormorants, kingfishers, water voles. I live on Middle Lock Lane which is used by countless cyclists and walkers with children and dogs. They usually cross the A4117 which is already much busier because of 3 recent housing developments close by: Hatton Park, Union View and Hampton Trove. The beautiful walks and bridle paths in this area, across fields within the site and along the canalside bring huge benefits to the health of this small community, benefits which hugely outweigh any possible benefit of yet more housing. We had a number of protracted power cuts in 2024 and broadband is growing less reliable. Warwick Hospital is at breaking point. Site B1 will increase traffic exponentially as there is no infrastructure or shops apart from in Warwick so all traffic will clog the road, making turning out of Middle Lock Lane and other roads even more difficult and dangerous. When the M40 or the A46 is closed because of an accident, flood or road works, traffic dramatically increases on the A4117. Exhaust fumes and traffic noise, including frequent sirens, are already a problem where I live. To build climate resilience, we need the woods and fields within B1 not more concrete and carbon emissions. Please assess the potential impact of this huge proposal, which would build more houses than make up our small village now. The Green Belt has already been ravaged by developments in Hatton – please take expert advice as to congestion, toxic emissions, loss of green areas before you go any further with this terrible plan. Please consider how detrimental this would be to the community here, to local enjoyments, walks, peace, biodiversity and beauty. The woodlands here are full of fauna and flora which enhance the environmental value of this place. Nature is nurtured here and nurtures us. Please protect the heritage and culture of Hatton, its surrounding green spaces and its culture, especially with regard to the areas close by the canal with its famous Hatton Flight locks. Destroying woodland and fields in B1 is not only a further invasion of the Green Belt, part of which is actually a conservation area, to the detriment of local green space and climate resilience, but the impact of another particularly enormous housing development would wreck our precious community cohesion, the character of this old village. A proposal to build a Care Home in the vicinity was recently rejected due to these arguments – the size of the proposed development on B1 would have a far greater detrimental impact than that on the people and wildlife here. Please consider our health and our enjoyment of this area and reject the allocation of this proposal.