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Access to this site from Primrose Hill will increase traffic along an already busy residential road where there have been traffic fatalities in recent years. The increase in stop-start traffic caused by a new roundabout will increase greenhouse gas emissions and will also affect the health of local residents as well as increasing the risk for pedestrians trying to cross this already busy road. The road is already heavily queued at both end roundabouts at rush hours and plans to "improve" the roundabout at the Coventry Road are unlikely to alleviate the congestion caused by increased traffic queueing to enter and exit Woodloes, along with existing traffic from Spinney Hill and Coventry Road (town centre direction). The planned development is Green Belt land and building on this would damage the biodiversity, in particular grass species, trees and ancient hedgerows. Insufficient information about this proposal was available at the recent public meeting on Woodloes - questions asked by the public were avoided; the meeting was not publicised; the council representatives were apparently not in posession of basic relevant factual information and presented contradictory evidence (new denial of TPOs, claims of vast leaflet drop advising of meeting) that suggested strongly that they are planning to proceed with this plan, offering little advice or help to residents wishing to object.