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If Burton Green really has to have 75 new dwellings, Burrow Hill site seems a sensible option for some as this will have limited visual impact on the landscape. I support this on the following conditions: (a) around 50% of the new dwellings should be built nearer the City of Coventry where the road infrastructure is better, i.e. off Cromwell Lane. This will split the development and reduce the Village within a Village tendency which is a real consideration when communities experience rapid growth. (b) The existing ancient hedgerow/trees which form the boundary between Burrow Hill and Red Lane must at all costs be retained to screen the new houses. If a portion of land running parallel with Red Lane within the Burrow Hill site could be retained for the Village use this could be planted with indigenous trees to further screen the development. This could grow into woodland with footpaths to in someway make up for the local amenities threatened by HS2. This will also have the advantage of reducing the noise from the very nearby HS2 to the dwellings. (c) If so many houses are to be constructed, what are the implications for Burton Green school? Could the development include an asset which will benefit the school and future children down the generations such as playing fields or woodlands to further the children's education? (d) I understand the development is to include a new village hall - one thing that greatly saddens one when travelling through the villages of Warwickshire is to see the local village churches turned into all manner of other uses; surely this is an opportunity to reverse this and include in the development plans a new local village church.