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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Individual

1. I don’t support any further building on green belt land. The new Kenilworth School is an example of how vast areas of formerly green belt to the East of Kenilworth have been lost by appearing to bend the rules – “Schools OK, so move the school out of town and then build houses near it and also on the old school land”. The Green Belt was established for reasons which are still valid today, and it is not simply there to make a town look countryfied and pretty.
2. The current building of homes is far from complete, but already the traffic in Birches Lane is at times extremely heavy. This is due to the new school location, and the first homes in and around this road being completed. When the remainder of homes are completed to plans already approved, this can only get worse.
3. The addition of pollution caused by all these vehicles, few of which are Electric Vehicles, is turning our local lane into a major highway such as there is in London, and the imposition of a ULEZ in Kenilworth will be the only solution, which will not be popular with the residents.
4. The population increase has made parking, shopping, and using doctors and dentists an increasingly difficult activity. There is one main road to Birmingham, one main road to Coventry and one to Leamington and the A46. The planning must provide for more access to and from Kenilworth, and not simply rely on the roads that feed these three main roads.
Greater use and encouragement must be made of our Railway Station, and getting the railway lines double tracked all the way from Coventry to Leamington is now urgently needed to be able to provide more trains during the day and thus persuade more people to commute using them. And a more reliable service is urgently needed now to stop the new station becoming obsolete.