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ID sylw: 106451

Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Gareth Salisbury

I'm writing to object to the proposed development at the references listed above [Ref.633 & Ref.469]. This development would have a huge impact on the current lilac fields estate, and listed below are the main reasons why.

1. Residents purchased these houses on the assurance that the adjacent field would never be built on. As most of these residents are still living at the site, I believe it would be grossly unfair to fail to honour that agreement.

2. As residents, we pay for the maintenance and upkeep of the site. If the proposal was allowed to go ahead, there would be a large amount of disruption due to vehicles coming from the main road to access the building site. This would include potential infrastructure damage i.e. damage to the road surface from heavy vehicles, a large amount of soil etc. being deposited from the tyres of vehicles and last but by no means least a huge health and safety risk to any residents using the road. The site roads are narrow, mostly with no footpaths, and of course are used by pedestrians and vehicles. I believe the risks associated with having our main access road used as an access road for a building site would be unacceptable.

3. The attenuation ponds at the site were created to deal with the size of site as it exists today. These ponds are able to cope with the amount of runoff which we currently experience on site but in periods of heavy rain they do actually fill up. I don't believe that they would be able to cope with the extra runoff from another housing estate. In addition to this, the ponds are a wildlife habitat and I believe that that habitat would be severely damaged by muddy water running off from the site if there were construction vehicles, driving backwards and forwards.

4. The field where the building site is proposed is on a hill, and this would mean that in periods of heavy rain, the flood risk to the current site would be greatly increased. As stated previously, our attenuation ponds would not be able to cope with the amount of runoff that there would be from another entire housing estate. As it stands, that extra water from periods of heavy rain is absorbed by the vegetation which grows in the field (proposed building site). This vegetation, although it may look to some people like weeds, is in fact providing another wildlife habitat, which, as well as holding large amounts of water, provides homes for mice, voles and various insects which are an important link in the food chain and plant species which potentially produce seeds for wild birds etc.

In conclusion, there is little or nothing to promote the idea of building on the proposed site. There will be brownfield sites within the Stratford District council area which could be used as an alternative. Perhaps the site could be given over to someone like the Warwickshire wildlife trust who could enhance and manage its potential as a wildlife habitat, rather than simply using the area to line the pockets of another housing developer!