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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Andrew Saunders

I am writing to you to express my objections and disbelief at the future planning proposals planned around the villages of Northend and Fenny Compton.
When Stratford District say they are an ambitious, fair, inclusive, and responsible organisation which will put our communities at the heart of everything they do, I feel it is a lie, if this project goes ahead. It is developers who are the ambitious ones with only them gaining.
Existing communities will have to live with a blight on a beautiful landscape, which for generations, people have visited to enjoy the views of an unspoilt South Warwickshire. Estimated 75000 known visitors last year. Building a metropolis below the Burton Dassett hills would be a disaster.
Increase of road traffic on a road system which is already struggling and falling apart due to lack of maintenance.
Increase of local population putting more strain on the General Practices and the NHS. It's 2 weeks and more for a Doctor's appointment to be granted at the Fenny Compton surgery at present.
On clay soils and with it in the name, Fenny coming from the word Fen, meaning wetland, an increase in flooding is a massive risk, which Fenny properties have suffered with in the past.
The lose of vast amounts of agricultural land which when lost to developments can never be regained, losing our ability for self sufficiency as an area and as a country as a whole.
I think most importantly is the environmental impact to the area. The massive lose of habitat for a wide variety of species. Mammals, birds, trees and invertebrates will all be hugely effected by any such proposals. Hedgerows and wildlife corridors will be removed and token planting of a few areas can not be deemed as an appropriate replacement. It is tick box exercise which developers do to clear their conscience and appease naive councillors.
I think no one is denying the necessity that more housing is needed, but a development of this scale is too much for a rural community to cope with. There will be a massive impact to the lives and well being to so many.
A massive development has already begun around the area of Lighthorne Heath and stretching to Chesterton Woods covering hundreds of acres. Farmland now lost forever. Wildlife habitat destroyed. No new Doctors surgery or school built to accommodate the new influx of residents.
Fenny Compton has already had to suffer the building of new houses at Compton Locks which as a result has pushed flood water towards the main village. Although the only positive point was built on a brown field site.
Smaller developments would be acceptable and appropriate to fill the need for housing and I think that is what is needed for future consideration. Looking for brown field sites and other appropriate locations or acquiring places like the now vacant Ettington Chase hotel.
Please don't be swayed by the legal teams of the developers who will paint a perfect picture of a new development situated in the middle of a rural community. It will result in a lot of problems which you will not see or feel. This is not NIMBYism. It is a practical view of the reality of the situation.