Testun llawn:
Objections to the local plan concerning the building of further housing development in and around Hatton Park.
1. Traffic dangers in the snow
Hatton Park is a housing estate built on a hill, whilst this provides a very pleasant outlook it is not without its dangers, especially in the winter months. Many residents who live at the top of the estate struggle to even get their cars off their drives and hence park their vehicles along Barcheston drive. This causes a significant hazard to other road users including the buses, who struggle to navigate around the numerous parked cars on what are very dangerous roads. Adding more houses to this site will significantly increase this risk, especially if they themselves are built on a sloping site, reference R114 and R115. If new houses need to built on Hatton Park I would strongly recommend they were built on flat land such as R117.
2. Infrastructure
Hatton Park is already a large housing estate without any local facilities such as schools or doctors. Building 70 to 90 new houses will only put more strain on the facilities utilised in other villages. The local Fencombe school is already over subscribed so what provision will there be for schooling for these extra families? There could be up to 100 more children needing access to a local school.
The A4177 is a major road between Warwick and Birmingham which already has a large volume of traffic especial at peak times leading to major congestion, especially around the A46 and Warwick Parkway railway station. Adding more traffic to this site would only make the situation worse.
3. Green belt, foot path and common ground
Much of the area surrounding Hatton Park is greenfield site surrounded by footpaths and bridleways. It is used by a great deal of people for walking, cycling and riding horses and any development that impacted this beautiful space would have a very large impact on a great deal of peoples lives, both resident and non resident. In particular R114 has a major bridleway that goes all the way to Kenilworth along side it which is used by a great deal of people. Also R115 is very heavily used by local residents, where children play, dogs are walked and in the winter many families come to toboggan. The loss of such a valuable space would be detrimental to the lives of many residents.
4. Affordable housing
While there is always a need for further executive housing I would be concerned wether the proposed development at Hatton Park would fulfil the councils brief of providing further affordable housing. Even 2 bedroom houses on this housing estate command a premium compared to other areas within Warwickshire.
5. Suggested development
If there is a genuine need to build more houses in and around Hatton Park I believe the proposed R117 site would be the best solution. Assuming there was a roundabout built to accommodate the traffic joining the A4177 this site is flat, would not bring further traffic through the current estate road network, would keep disruption of current residents to a minimum and would preserve the current play areas and bridleways of Hatton Park.