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Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Claire Fooks

strongly object to the proposed housing developments in Shipston-on-Stour. Here I outline my reasons as to why.

- Education provision is at capacity. The high school is over subscribed and there is no sixth form provision here. The primary school while not yet over subscribed, will surely become so with 3000 new homes built. Nursery places are very limited, especially for babies. I had to register my two children when I was 8 weeks pregnant to secure a nursery place in Shipston for when they turned 1. While the developments will not impact the primary school spaces for my children when the time comes for them to go to school, I would worry that living on the edge of town I would not get spaces with and increased population and be forced to travel out of town for school. This would have a great impact on us as we’d have to drive the children to school and possibly in the opposite direction to where both my husband and I work. It would be a huge inconvenience for us and would like mean ending up in a small village school which would not be the right provision for my children.

- Other services are at capacity. For example my husband and I had to wait 18 months to get an NHS dentist here in shipston.

- The town centre is at capacity. Since living in shipston for the past 6 years, we have noticed the increase in traffic through the town centre. We are lucky enough that we can walk into town, but there are occasions when we wish to park in the town centre to pick something up on our way out or while I have been pregnant, I don’t wish to carry my shopping back home. It’s often hard to find a free space to park and I will some times have to do a couple of laps around the block while waiting for a space. With 3000 more houses this will become even more of a challenge. There is not the space for feathers town centre to expand with the buildings and roads in town plus the river.

- A lot of the development is planned for flood plain site, which anyone can see is ridiculous. I have a masters degree in environmental science and know that the implications of this are huge. The flood group in shipston have worked so hard to protect our town from flooding but this proposed new development threatens worst flooding in town and down stream affecting possibly Tredington.

- Access to the new developments on the other side of the river to the town centre is inadequate for people living there and for building traffic. Both the bridges at the mill to Brailes and Honington are single track and cannot support such increased traffic flow.

- Who are the proposed developments serving here. There aren’t enough jobs for everyone to be working in shipston so people will be commuting making the main roads out of shipston busier with cars as public transport is limited here. It must also be considered that a lot of new residents we meet are moving up from London to shipston as the housing is more affordable here. However this is pushing up prices for people like us who have lived in Warwickshire for a long time and stopping us from making the next step on the property ladder.

-The development proposed is on the recycling centre. This would be a great loss for shipston and would mean a drive to wellesbourne or further to deposit waste. I would worry that this would increase fly tipping in the area.

- In other waste areas, the sewage system in shipston is already unable to cope with the increased developments along the Campden Road with frequent flooding of sewage water and call outs from Severn Trent. Walking down the road with a two year old telling them that it’s poo pouring down the road when they ask is not acceptable in this country nor is having to drive my car thorough other people’s sewage.