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ID sylw: 5078

Derbyniwyd: 21/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Dr Neville Hunt

Object to Kings Hill site:
Irreversible loss of green belt - easy option. No immediate need to build on green belt when Coventry City identified sites for around 20,000 new homes on urban or brownfield sites. Resist govt. policy and refuse to allow building on prime green belt land.
Scale of development is breathtaking. Currently only 2,000 homes in Finham, increase of 3,500 would dominate the area, swamp its infrastructure and ruin its semi-rural tranquility. Smaller scale on edges of identified site less contentious. In particular Kings Hill itself is prominent and cherished local landmark not without historical significance and idea of capping with modern housing visible from miles away, unthinkable.
No buffer proposed between existing Finham community and proposed. At least 500m needed to protect Finham from being engulfed by new development .
Coventry wish new residents to work in the city and not commute to Leamington, Rugby, Stratford etc. This relies on there being transport for thousands of people to travel from Kings Hill area into the City Centre or surrounding commercial districts. People prefer to use their car rather than other means of transport so additional vehicles will be dispersed each morning from Kings Hill onto roads leading into Coventry.
Vehicular access to new estate could not be from Green Lane or St Martins Road due to current levels of usage. Parents not prepared to allow children to walk to school so traffic gridlocked at start and end of school day. Problem so serious that city council has postponed school expansion. Similarly Stoneleigh Road suffers congestion from University traffic. Development at Kirby Corner might have encouraged those employed at University to live on new estate and walk.
Will need new road linking development to A46 in one direction and University or A45 in other. Any modelling needs to take account of additional traffic a new road would attract. Many currently frustrated road users in Canley,Westwood Heath and North Kenilworth would switch to easier and faster route to A46/45.
Discard proposed housing development at Kings Hill.