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Hampton Magna has suffered more than its fair share of change over the 6 years that I have lived here.
The upgrade to the motorway junction resulted in a vast increase in traffic cutting through the country lanes often at inappropriate speed, as well as an increase on the Old Budbrooke Road, and this has never diminished. Likewise the changes made by Chiltern to encourage commuters to drive to Warwick Parkway rather than catch a train from their local station has further increased traffic which resulted in the multi storey car park being built to accommodate these cars. Considering the government aim to reduce traffic on the roads, I fail to see the logic of forcing people to drive several miles to Warwick Parkway to catch a train that they used to catch from Dorridge.
Both the above have resulted in increased noise levels in the village too.
It now seems that we must pay the penalty for this by having our semi rural area further eroded by development that is of an inappropriate scale when considered against the size of the existing population and which will completely alter the character of this village and turn it into just an extension of Warwick, separated only by the A46 and the railway. Hardly a village anymore! The roads around here cannot support that increase in population.
I do accept that there must be development, but sympathetically with regard to numbers to allow us to keep the character and community spirit of this village, and to encourage the farms in this area to remain. The whole Warwick area is already surrounded by major roads which bring their own constraints for development space, but surely there are other areas that can take some of the development rather than filling in the remaining pleasant land around here.