Testun llawn:
I believe that Hampton Magna has been arbitrarily categorised as a category 1 village as it has a station, shop, school, health centre, public transport links and post office. I do not believe that the two large developments, (Hatton Park and Chase Meadow), which have been built within the parish in recent years, have been taken into account. Much of the infrastructure in Hampton Magna is already supporting residents from Hatton Park and Chase Meadow and the levels of traffic through the village are further exacerbated by the presence of the main line station Warwick Parkway, which serves the whole district. Therefore, while the infrastructure in Hampton Magna may appear on paper to be sufficient to accommodate up to 100 new houses, in reality it is already stretched to breaking point in having to accommodate the station and residents from nearby developments which were built without sufficient infrastructure. It is hard to fathom how Cubbington, which clearly has a much stronger infrastructure than Hampton Magna, could be categorised as being able to support a smaller number of new homes.
Further to the above I believe that expanding Hampton Magna by the proposed 100 homes, (approx 17% of the existing 600 homes), is disproportionate in terms of both the number of new homes proposed for elsewhere in the district and against the Office of National Statistics prediction for population growth between 2010 and 2020, (7.8%).
Looking further afield, the proposed developments in Lapwoth, Rowington, Shrewley, Hatton, Hampton Magna and Norton Lindsay would all depend upon the same B road transport links, which would clearly be insufficient to cope with the increase in traffic.