Testun llawn:
I emailed you with my objections to the proposed 70-90 new houses planned for Hatton Park at the end of last year, since then I have attended the consultation held in the village hall on 6th January 2014 and was most unimpressed. We moved here from Solihull, there, when a consultation took place it was a proper consultation, several members of the appropriate council department held the informed meeting and a question and answer session followed. It was even possible for a show of hands! This is what I expected upon arrival at the village hall, this was not to be, there was, as you must be aware, a pin board with a copy of the information we already had plus one young lady to answer any questions! As over 100 residents were already waiting to speak to your representative I'm afraid I gave up.
The following week a meeting was called by the Parish Council, this was most informative and helpful. It was a proper meeting with many points made & many views exchanged. I would like to repeat the points I made in my previous email.
I feel most strongly that the Birmingham Road will not take the extra traffic, certainly not once the proposed extra properties are built in Hampton Magna and Budbrooke. How does the Council imagine the A4177 will cope, especially if there is an accident on the motorway or the A46, the A4177 is in total chaos when this happens now, the schools are already filled to capacity, local GP surgeries are always busy, can Warwick Hospital deal with more patients?
Looking at the latest plan by the builders/planners the new housing will be far too close to the area known as Smith's Covert - this will have a dreadful impact on the local wildlife - of this I am sure you are aware, perhaps you could inform the builder/planners of this. The proposed housing is also for too close to existing properties, why is all the housing squashed into one area when double that land capacity is there? Presumably, the builders/planners will then decide to build even more properties at a later date, thus causing more problems for the local community. This land is needed to support local wildlife.
We have very few facilities in Hatton Park, we have a bus service, a very small shop, a community hall and a childrens' playground, not a great deal to serve the community.
As we are all aware of flooding issues this year especially, has anyone taken land drainage into consideration? Is it a good thing to build yet more housing and prevent yet more water draining off the land? This could be a very costly business if due thought hasn't been taken. We all know how badly local roads have flooded this year, adding more housing isn't going to help.
Because of the debacle over the High Street/Jury Street saga and the apparent lack of thought by Warwick Council of the process of communicating ALL information to the residents of Warwick I really feel very afraid that this whole process will be so badly thought through that, I hate to say, I have no confidence in the local housing plan. We are all fortunate enough to live in a beautiful area, you, our Council, are supposed to take care of this, please make sure you do.