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ID sylw: 106554

Derbyniwyd: 16/02/2025

Ymatebydd: John Hargis

Site ref – 623: Lowes Lane/Walton Road – Well.07B
I object to the inclusion of house building on the field behind properties “Long Ground” and “The Old Orchard”, both along Lowes Lane in Wellesbourne. See map below. The basis of my objection is as follows:
1) The area would seem to have the potential for up to 100 houses. Access to the site is by means of two narrow paths onto Walton Road and Lowes Lane that are only wide enough to accommodate vehicles moving in one direction.
2) The path onto Lowes Lane is a public footpath (SD121a) which is regularly used by walkers, so the movement of vehicles along this path (around 100m) would constitute a safety hazard to the public.
3) The potential for up to 200 vehicle movements per day associated with the site onto Lowes Lane will create a major traffic hazard along an already heavily congested road system in both Lowes Lane and Chapel Street, which is intolerable. If traffic movements were to be along Walton Road, there would also be heavy congestion at the point of access to “Walton Way” which was a key concern in the recent permission being granted for up to 10 self-build houses behind “Walton Way”.
4) There are sections of both Lowes Lane and Walton Road where there is no existing, or scope for, a pedestrian footpath which further raises safety concerns. This has been a more acute issue since the building of the new housing estates at Ettington Park and The Grange with many parents using Lowes Lane as a route to/from the local primary school. The increased movement of traffic associated with the new site would thereby also be intolerable.
5) The field is regularly waterlogged after prolonged rain which, if built upon, would inevitably result in water spill over along this stretch of the River Dene, which has been a previous source of major flooding of housing twice in the past 30 years along Chapel Street
6) The field is an excellent and rare example of medieval “ridge and farrow” land use which should be preserved for its historic significance. This point was noted in the Neighbourhood Plan.