BASE HEADER

I object to this development for some of the following reasons:-


Access

Access from the village and surrounding areas is extremely difficult during peak times. It frequently takes 20 - 30 minutes to leave Hampton Magna towards Warwick in the morning and the same going the other way in the evening. The build up of this traffic also results in Budbrooke Road being used as a 'rat run' for vehicles trying to avoid the heavy traffic on the A46. It does not seem to me that the road infrastructure can support any more housing on this side of Warwick Hampton Magna, Hatton Park, Lapworth etc

Construction traffic
though the village would be hazardous as a large part of the population
of Hampton Magna are children and elderly. All construction traffic
would have to pass under the single file rail bridge or go through the
village of Hampton on the Hill. Either way is not suitable for heavy
goods.

Traffic and parking around the school at picking up and dropping off times is a nightmare. Cars park on both sides of the roads around the school and neighbouring area and as they are residential roads there is barely room to use the roads and driving is very difficult due to the number of small children about. Expanding the village by 25% can only make this problem critical as many people use their cars to pick up children - even though they may live within walking distance.

Green Belt

I strongly object to any development in the green belt, which was after all set up to limit urban sprawl. I object even more strongly when it is being used for housing (as a great deal of Hatton Park) - not for local first time buyers - but for overspill for people from the south who can now use the M40 and Warwick
Parkway to commute. Perhaps the communities where these people work
should provide the housing to accommodate their workforce and not rely on other counties to do this for them.

General comments

I have lived
in Hampton Magna since it was built in the late sixies. Over this
time there has been a gradual decline in the 'countryside' around. The
A46 and M40 have led to constant traffic noise in fine weather. We
are on the flight path to Coventry Airport and since it's closure have
more planes flying over to go into Birmingham. Warwick Parkway has
been built despite objections by the local community and the commute to Leamington each day had become a a slow crawl which can take up to an hour. Considerable numbers of new houses have already been built at Hatton Park and Chase Meadow. This should be enough for this small parish.

I do not think this development will enhance the village and will cause untold inconvenience and noise whilst the building is taking place to all the residents and also to the school which will have to operate with all the noise of a building site surrounding it.