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Please confirm that this email can be accepted as an objection to the "Revised Development Strategy (RDS 5 Para 4.4)"

1. This is currently a Green Belt Area. We should be protecting this - especially agricultural land which is very quickly diminishing.
2. Access to this area (via Blandford Way/Arras Boulevard) - only route possible - is already a problem. Vehicles avoiding paying parking charges at Parkway Station regularly park in Blandford Way, sometimes for several days at a time, causing obstruction for local buses and also making the bend at the top of Blandford Way where it joins Arras Boulevard virtually blind. With increased traffic this can only get worse, possibly leading to a serious accident.
3. The sewerage system is running to almost full capacity and is unlikely to cope with the added volume increase
4. Budbrooke infant/junior school is already stretched to capacity and could not possibly accommodate additional pupils.
5. There are bats in the hedgerows surrounding the area behind Curlieu Close and Arras Boulevard. I understand that these are a protected species.
6. Traffic problems already exist at peak times - rat run to/from Henley Road to Station, together with the knock-on effect of frequent hold-ups on Stanks' Island with traffic going into Warwick because traffic on A4177 gets priority over traffic from Hampton Magna/Parkway Station. The current road system will never cope with an increase in traffic.