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ID sylw: 60432

Derbyniwyd: 29/07/2013

Ymatebydd: Stephen Ray

The land allocations are accompanied by road proposals designed to accommodate the traffic generated by them. Very little thought seems to have been paid to the impact of the new traffic and the proposed mitigation measures on the existing urban fabric. Surprisingly, proposals are in several cases made without being backed up by the evidence of traffic modeling. With the huge increase in housing to the South of the District, this will mean unsustainable traffic congestions and pollution levels. These proposals are totally inappropriate for the Conservation Area of Warwick and will damage its fabric, environment and its businesses. Furthermore it appears that the phase 3 traffic assessment has been solely concerned with accommodating the traffic generated from the new land allocations rather than reducing their impact, and proposals contained in the assessment to cope with the extra traffic are "engineering" solutions that are naïve, potentially catastrophic and/or inappropriate.

The current pattern of journey to work in the sub region is for over 7,000 vehicles to travel to and from Coventry each day in both directions across our area. Recent analysis shows that 75% of all through traffic in Warwick is just that - passing through. The provision of major new or extended employment areas at Gaydon, south Coventry and to the south of Warwick will encourage additional daily journeys along roads through Warwick that are particularly congested at peak periods already, with consequent extra congestion and environmental damage. The proposals in the plan for a park and ride based in the south of Warwick are therefore wrongly located and would tend to increase cross town traffic rather than reduce it.