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ID sylw: 106052

Derbyniwyd: 21/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Sarah Kempa

I would like the express my concern for the plans to develop the beautiful countryside in the local vicinity of Bishops Itchington.

As a local resident, I can attest for the disruption that increasing number of housing and industrial developments will cause. This is a small village, with narrow roads, often single carriageways and the estimated 6000 additional houses in the local area (numbers provided by the Bishops Itchington PC) will devastate the ease of navigation for the current residents. Without significant improvements and investments to the existing roads, sewage and amenities, it will turn this lovely village into an overcrowded area.

There are poor links to local towns like Leamington and Warwick, and with the regulations on affordable housing/social housing, whose residents are significantly less likely to be car-owners, surely somewhere closer to the bigger towns, with better public transport links would be more suitable? In addition, the increased traffic will undoubtedly hinder the agricultural transport needed between fields and farms.

In the local countryside, there are hedgehogs and other protected wildlife, such as tawny owls, bats, and other birds of prey. There is very little regard for nature when developing these plans, this is their home too and we are already increasingly infiltrating on their space.

I can never understand why the first call is to develop green spaces, rather than abundant and abandoned brownfield sites, of which there are plenty in places such as Coventry. Incentives need to be offered to developers to choose these sites rather than countryside.

I urge you to reconsider the current excessive plans as it is not wanted by the vast majority of local residents, who elected you to serve them and their best interests.