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Alternative Sites Consultation

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Derbyniwyd: 14/04/2010

Ymatebydd: Mr Geoff Creighton

Crynodeb o'r Gynrychiolaeth:

The roads have not been built to carry this amount of traffic and are already extremely dangerous. One can only imagine the bottleneck this development will cause. Rat runs will cause greater problems on smaller roads.

The 1000 houses proposal is outside the capacity of the local builder within a reasonable time frame.

In addition are there issues with flooding on the site?

Safety issues with the railway line.

Problems with parking and building could be similar to those at the Millpool Meadow development.

Testun llawn:

From the drawings I have seen there seems to be 2 major concerns.
1. Volume of traffic.
The parcel of land Site L10. This seems to indicate that access for this development will be St Fremund Way.
If planning is given to this area there will be upwards of 200 houses with the potential of a minimum of 200 cars.
St Fremund Way has not been built to carry this amount of traffic and already the parking makes it extremely dangerous.
In addition road out of the estate Chesterton Drive is similarly not built to carry this volume of traffic.
The wider plan involving the release of further land for housing and then a school is a funnel. Although there is a plan to build a road running parallel to the railway line this will end at the roundabout at the junction of Sydenham Road and Chesterton Drive.
One can only imagine the bottleneck this volume of traffic will cause. Bearing in mind the number of houses and that a large number of parents who now drop off and pick up their children at school by car.
This will lead to rat runs when people look to avoid the problems, causing even greater problems on St Fremund Way and Chesterton Drive.
2. A C Lloyd Capacity
In looking at the plans there are over 1000 proposed houses. To my knowledge this is outside the capcity of this local builder within a reasonable time frame. I understand that in fact they have been told by the council that they have 12 months to finish the existing development at Millpool Meadow, since they have been at it for over 10 years and people who have bought houses at the begining have endured 10 years of building works.
One must then ask that in fact is this a speculative move by a company that has recently made a large number of its staff redundant, by gaining planning permission for a lucrative site (throwing in a new school) and then selling it on to another developer?

In addition Although I am not an expert the school looks as if it is to be built on flood plain. Have we not learnt our lessons on flooding?
Safety, whilst I'm sure there will be substantial efforts to secure the railway line so that children do not have access, is building a school near such danger a really an option?

Question
I would also like to know what type of housing will be anticipated for this proposed development, since from what I've seen of how these builders operate they apply for one thing and then change their mind at different phases. Hence the number of flats that appeared in the Millpool Meadows development.

Vehicular parking. The current off road parking provided on the Millpool Meadow development is wholly inadequate for the number of cars being used. This leads to cars being parked all over the roads and passing extremely difficult. Bearing in mind that we are supposed to learn lessons from existing developments what plans would be put into place to stop this in the new development.