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Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Lynn Evans

In essence any house holder in SG22 would not be employed locally and so would need to commute to a place of work, most likely in the greater west midlands area, this defeats the government's aim of reducing travelling and putting houses where people work.

It would be far easier to integrated smaller developments, into a wider area, so spreading the demand on resources.

Lots of comments and assumptions have been made in the supporting documentation which are totally wrong highlighting their ignorance of the local area in every aspect. Even local councillors have questioned the supporting evidence and criticized most of the content as being seriously flawed.

There is no way this land can be considered as brown or grey belt to get round the requirements.

The site provides a much-needed green buffer between Studley, Middletown, Sambourne and the outer reaches of the major combination of Redditch.

Major effects would be a building blight due to the elevated aspect of the land along with people, noise, traffic, light and air pollution.

The infrastructures to support such a development have been seriously underestimated regarding the provision of gas and electricity requirements.

The provision of storm water control and sewage treatment will far exceed the capacity of Spernal Ash sewage treatment works.

Lepus says it scores well on healthcare; the reality is far from that! Redditch hospital is not far away but has been seriously downgraded over the last decade with services moved to Worcester which is now totally overloaded and performing badly.

Studley has few leisure facilities, a small swimming pool and children's park and that's all, to find other facilities involves a 20-to-30-mile car journey at a time when we are being asked to use the car less.

Public transport is a major issue with only a basic bus service available, there is no train station.

In addition, if the proposed SG23 Alcester development is built, 50% of the traffic from this development will head north towards Studley either on the A435 or A448 compounding the problem further.Lepus said all the above was positive in support of SG22, a statement which is totally confusing, it makes no sense and is totally incorrect. The conclusion is that this proposal is seriously flawed in so many areas it should be withdrawn.