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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Jane Martin

It is hard to imagine the impact this will have on the traffic flow in and out of Stratford along the B4632 which is already very slow at peak times, especially going into Stratford.
In rush hour there is already bad enough delay on Seven Meadows Road, Shipston Road and over the main bridge. This will impact the lives of everyone - children will be late to school, adults late for work and buses (albeit more of them according to your proposal) and emergency response vehicles will be held up. Over time, Stratford will become a frustrating, undesirable and unsafe place to live and work.

I see you note that cycling will be encouraged. This is not a safe option. The cycle way on this route from Clifford Chambers to Stratford, which I use with fear, is inadequate, not being wide enough for cyclists to pass one another without dismounting, on a road where large lorries travel at an intimidating 50mph, their wheels almost touching the kerb sides, and with overhung bushes that obscure visibility for and of cyclists.
I recall that a limit of 400 houses on Long Marston was in place, until a Relief Road was built. Without a relief road, this development proposal is outrageous.

However, site BW already has better transport infrastructure with two railway stations offering services into Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Leamington, and to London Marylebone . New residents would be able to travel to work in a range of locations, without adding to congestion and air pollution on the approach to Stratford. I

It seems that several of the alternative sites to E1 and BW have existing railway stations that could be further utilised without adding to Stratford traffic carnage. r

I hope that the serious traffic issues of congestion, delays and accident risk on the already beyond capacity B4632 posed by this proposal, and the subsequent impact on the flow of traffic in and around Stratford will be realistically assessed and prevented.