Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5078

Derbyniwyd: 21/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Dr Neville Hunt

Object to Kings Hill site:
Irreversible loss of green belt - easy option. No immediate need to build on green belt when Coventry City identified sites for around 20,000 new homes on urban or brownfield sites. Resist govt. policy and refuse to allow building on prime green belt land.
Scale of development is breathtaking. Currently only 2,000 homes in Finham, increase of 3,500 would dominate the area, swamp its infrastructure and ruin its semi-rural tranquility. Smaller scale on edges of identified site less contentious. In particular Kings Hill itself is prominent and cherished local landmark not without historical significance and idea of capping with modern housing visible from miles away, unthinkable.
No buffer proposed between existing Finham community and proposed. At least 500m needed to protect Finham from being engulfed by new development .
Coventry wish new residents to work in the city and not commute to Leamington, Rugby, Stratford etc. This relies on there being transport for thousands of people to travel from Kings Hill area into the City Centre or surrounding commercial districts. People prefer to use their car rather than other means of transport so additional vehicles will be dispersed each morning from Kings Hill onto roads leading into Coventry.
Vehicular access to new estate could not be from Green Lane or St Martins Road due to current levels of usage. Parents not prepared to allow children to walk to school so traffic gridlocked at start and end of school day. Problem so serious that city council has postponed school expansion. Similarly Stoneleigh Road suffers congestion from University traffic. Development at Kirby Corner might have encouraged those employed at University to live on new estate and walk.
Will need new road linking development to A46 in one direction and University or A45 in other. Any modelling needs to take account of additional traffic a new road would attract. Many currently frustrated road users in Canley,Westwood Heath and North Kenilworth would switch to easier and faster route to A46/45.
Discard proposed housing development at Kings Hill.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5093

Derbyniwyd: 21/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr & Mrs C Windridge

Object to Kings Hill site:
Traffic congestion greatest worry. Already increased volume on St Martins Road since expansion of NAC. Speed and volume of traffic at rush hour make it extremely dangerous for people exiting Howes Lane.
Impact on local amenities.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5109

Derbyniwyd: 09/10/2009

Ymatebydd: Nigel R & Sandra Edmonds

Object to Kings Hill site:
Flooding, impact on schools, amenities etc. Traffic congestion - St Martins Road already problems getting into and out of property access. Tailbacks every morning and evening with cars on way to Finham School and those coming from the city and early traffic for 2 hours each day using A45.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5143

Derbyniwyd: 22/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr Barry Betts

Close to Coventry which offers much greater employment opportunities, closer to large brownfield sites for new employment development opportunities. Closer to higher/continuing education facilities. Better established infrastructure.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5216

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Sonia Owczarek

This is Green Belt.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5238

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Lindsay Wood

object

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5249

Derbyniwyd: 21/09/2009

Ymatebydd: MS Judith Bennett

Object to Kings Hill site:
Not only housing but will need amenities - shops, schools, health care, transport and communications. Land between Coventry and Kenilworth will be built up destroying open space and cause significant increase in pollution, congestion, noise and overcrowding. Likely to take number of years to complete - what will residents do in mean time? Will result in greater strain on existing services.
Understanding that green belt land is protected from development to prevent towns and cities joining up and forming large conurbations. This will happen if this development goes ahead.
Beautiful view across farmland will be destroyed together with wildlife.
Concerned about impact on run-off and drainage in the area. Concrete and tarmac over sloping area can only increase risk of flooding, which already occurs in periods of heavy rainfall.
Need to expand water treatment works on Stoneleigh Road, putting pressure on River Sowe making flooding more likely.
Traffic will increase along country roads and increase pollution and noise.
People will need to travel to work and impact of extra traffic will be immense, especially on congested junctions (St Martins Road and A45) at peak times. Safety of pedestrians, school children and cyclists compromised. New traffic routes will increase impact on landscape.
Coventry has around 400 houses empty - if there are not enough people to fill those, there is no need to plan new development of housing.
Essential Warwick DC and Coventry City council work together and communicate with local residents.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5262

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: RL & M Davies

Object to Kings Hill site:
Too many green spaces being replaced with new developments. Should try preserving environnmentally sensitive lands for future generations.
Consideration should be given to wildlife, ponds, trees that would be lost.
Main considerations are impact on countryside, SINC, landscape character and inpact on the amenities of neighbouring properties.
Site of Importance for Nature Conservation - Development within this area should only be permissible if it can be demonstrated that the need for development outweights the impact on the site's wildlife interest. If it does not comply with the relevant countryside policies it would therefore be unacceptable.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5271

Derbyniwyd: 23/10/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr A Emerson

Object to Kings Hill site:
Do not wish to see green belt/farmland destroyed in favour of housing that is not required but is being forced upon us by MPs.
Do not want wildlife destroyed - badgers, deer, foxes, woodpeckers etc all at risk.
Buses and roads cannot cope with current population so why add to burden>
Flooding always an issue - don't build here.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5286

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: J. N. Price

Any development of this land, either for housing or commercial use, will adversely affect and
eventually destroy, the existing green belt between Coventry and Kenilworth. This will result in the destruction of their separate identities and the creation of urban sprawl. It is therefore to be strongly deprecated. Consideration should be given to the development of existing brownfield sites (such as
Coventry airport) and infill sites to the east of Coventry.

Cefnogi

ID sylw: 5346

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: SEAN DEELY

This finger of land is almost surrounded by development. It should as a last resort be used for development bust must be used to meet Warwick and Leamington's allocation rather than Coventry's

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5398

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: John Baxter

Land south of Finham should never be used for housing as it's not necessary, traffic and noise would be a nuisance and the infrastructure can't serve current situations creating gridlocked roads which would be unsafe for the schools in the area.

Schools would be unable to accept any increase in numbers from new housing - especially as new housing would not even be in the same county as well as local amenities.

Loss of farm land and green belt land is unacceptable. Wildlife will be destroyed. Area is prone to flooding in parts because of Finham Brook.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5476

Derbyniwyd: 27/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Joanna Illingworth

Land in Warwick District should not be allocated for Coventry's housing until all sites in the city have been used. This will not happen for many years.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5499

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr John Kirkman

Object to Kings Hill site:
Warwick District Council is developing fringes of Coventry and using Coventry's infrastructure.
A45 already very busy as are Stoneleigh Road and Gibbet Hill - building on Kings Hill would bring greater congestion.
Schools place limited. Shops, doctors surgeries, dentists - limited provision.
Ill conceived and misjudged. Use of urban fringes problematic due to poor public transport. No local train station and infrequent buses.
Employment which is to be part of development may not be taken up by those living on the estate. With regard to fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions this is the worst case scenario. Philosophy including conceptions of urban renaissance is contrary to this approach. - embedded in RSS, city centres be developed in continental style removing need for people to own car as they can walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Contrary to government plans to provide homes where they are needed. Not great demands for homes in Coventry - house prices are low. Demand is for rural areas and young people wanting to stay in villages in which they were born. Small scale village development needed to address this.
Environmental cost to Kings Hill - loss of farmland at a time when oil prices show volatility. Transporting food will not be an option - need to grow food close to market. Building on city fringes will reduce ability to do this. Loss of beautiful landscape for future generations - cannot be restored. Wildlife will have less space.
People need open, green spaces for mental and physical wellbeing. Those living in village or small town live near to green spaces. For those living in Coventry it is a small but essential pleasure.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5504

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: V Strong

Object to Kings Hill site:
Loss of green belt land and wildlife - Building of houses, industrial units, schools, roads, sewage disposal, gas, electricity and drinking water supplies on this small piece of land will evenutally bring Coventry, Kenilworth and Stoneleigh into conurbation, which would continue to expand exponentially. Precious little green open space inside Coventry now, taking green belt from around the city would reduce 'lungs' and diminish air quality. There are ancient hedgerows dating back to 1500 on land. Along with loss of green belt and agricultural land, there is loss of wildlife. Continuous loss of habitat is pushing too many species to extinction and the eco-balance is further upset.
Loss of farm land - food prices rising and world food crisis. Our food has to be imported , even that traditionally grown here, as production capacity per head of population is extremely low, yet we have some of the best farmland in the world. Land is built on and farmers paid minimum prices. Brown field sites can be reused but once greenbelt/farmland built on, it cannot be recovered.
Flooding - hard surface accompanying development is going to cause severe increase in surface water run off and as the site slopes down to Stoneleigh and the Severn Trent Sewage Treatment Works, then flooding seems inevitable with potential sewage pollution in the sort of rainy weather experienced in recent years. Cost to all residents.
Traffic - already congested on A45, A46 and Kenilworth Road at rush hours into and out of city. More houses and industrial units will add to traffic hold ups and increase air and noise pollution adding to misery of loss of green belt land. Building more road to open up the bottle neck would only increase the problem.
Other socially necessary amenities:
Schools - already oversubscribed. Would have to be extended to accommodate more children with loss of playing fields and overcrowding of outdoor and indoor facilities.
GP surgeries, dental surgeries, public transport, welfare clinic, district nurses, library, easy, speedy access to emergency services and hospitals - some already in short supply in Finham area.
Population density in Coventry and surrounding area already high and in danger of reaching critical mass - dangerous ecologically, economically and politically.
Employment - Financially Coventry in bad way - industries sold off and jobs taken abroad. Factory sites are left derelict and no manufacturing base that can absorb even small number of skilled unemployed. People have little money to spend so knock on effect in service industry.Little to attract visitors to city with cheap chains operating. An ageing population in city unable to support themselves on state pensions.; School leavers going straight onto benefit because there is no employment.
Who will buy houses? Local people won't get jobs when building complete so who will buy the houses? Even affordable housing is too expensive.
Unused brown field sites - what is current brown field site capacity? Where are they? Coventry airport for sale and no longer viable. It is next to cleared ex-factory complex at Ryton which is earmarked for industrial development. Construction companies may prefer to use open countryside to build to maximise profits.
Kings Hill area does have 4.5 ft. diameter sewage pipe carrying waste from Canley to Severn Trent Sewage Works at bottom of Kings Hill and there is major pipeline carrying fuel from South West to Northern Britain.
Vitally important to maintain green corridors and that means careful management and control of land use, population density and social welfare provision.

Cefnogi

ID sylw: 5530

Derbyniwyd: 22/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr and Mrs G Morgan

Nifer y bobl: 2

Support.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5544

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mrs Joyce Reynolds

Object to Kings Hill site:
Access too difficult at peak times even though adjacent to A46. Infrastructure won't support extra vehicles from >3000 new homes.
Area well used with productive agricultural land within ancient hedgerows and mature trees. 27 ponds support variety of wildlife and there are two plant nurseries providing jobs for those who find entry into other employment too challenging.
If this is intended as overspill for Coventry why is affordable housing not 20%?

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5587

Derbyniwyd: 22/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mike Newell

Object to Kings Hill site:
Green belt land will be destroyed - objectives are: protect natural or semi natural environments; improve air quality within urban areas; ensure that urban dwellers have access to countryside with consequent educational and recreational opportunities and protect the unique character of rural communities which might otherwise be absorbed by expanding suburbs.
Green belt has many benefits: walking, camping, and biking areas close to cities and towns; habitat for wild plants, animal and wildlife; cleaner air and water; better land use of areas bordering cities.
Access: Finham and surrounding area has approx 2000 homes. Traffic at peak times unbearable with slow moving traffic on largest of roads. Almost all roads into and out of Finham are small or rural with parked cars lining one side making single lane for passing traffic. A primary and secondary school are located on Green Lane with resulting traffic ar certain times of day and making surrounding streets severely congested. Additional traffic would be serious danger to school children.
Precedent: Allowing development or building on the green belt would allow similar decision to be made on protected green belt areas. Will be gradual but definite erosion of irreplaceable resource.
Environment: At a time when world focussed on saving precious resources, WDC or Coventry will be communicating to the world its policy on the environment is to destroy, not maintain, decreasing resources such as these.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5601

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Roger and Julia Graham

Object to Kings Hill site:
Loss of green belt and farmland and the subsequent consequences that would bring to wildlife. We should be protecting areas of grassland and trees not destroying them. This area also provides definition between Coventry and Kenilworth which people will be sad to see disappear.
Concerned at extra traffic that any new development would bring both during building work and afterwards. A45, Stoneleigh Road and Green Lane are already congested at peak times and any extra traffic would magnify this. Extra traffic would bring safety issues for pedestrians especially in the area of Finham primary and Finham Park secondary schools. Roads on the other side of Kings Hill are equally busy approaching the university. Would need major new road network to facilitate comfortable access to any new development.
Existing amenities such as doctor's surgeries, post office, local shops, public transport and schools would be inadequate to meet needs of expanded community. Secondary school already oversubscribed.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5606

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Duncan Gowing

Object to Kings Hill site:
Gone through months of arduous process to get planning permission for simple domestic extension - reason given for strict restrictions was green belt. Suddenly restrictions no longer apply and it is OK to build thousands of new properties and associated development.
Unacceptable to develop open land - Will irrevocably destroy protected green belt. Will wipe out county wildlife - birds, mammals including field mice, foxes, badgers and foxes.
Will remove good quality farming land when there is nationally recognised shortage. Will lose separation between Coventry and Kenilworth so that Kenilworth ceases to be a Warwickshire market town and becomes extension to West Midlands sprawl.
Overspill from Coventry due to ludicrously high number of houses they are planning.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5638

Derbyniwyd: 18/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr Peter Barclay

Objects to the proposed allocation at Kings Hill Lane for the following reasons:
1. The existing infrastructure could not cope with increase in traffic and demand for other services.
2. There is no demonstrable requirement for new homes since there are no signs of new jobs returning.
3. No demonstration that brownfield sites have been fully exlored first
4. Unbalanced allocation of housing to Coventry as opposed to Warwick and Solihull
5. Lack of prior consultation with Finham residents

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5639

Derbyniwyd: 12/10/2009

Ymatebydd: Mrs Valerie Neal

Objects to the proposed development at Kings Hill for the following reasons:
1. There is no demand for new homes because of current unemployment levels and people can't afford to buy them.
2. Brownfield sites such as Central 6, Peugeot & Jaguar, should be developed for housing first.
3. There are lhundreds of houses for sale at present and many are vacant.
4. There are already traffic problems in the area
5. There is no capacity in local schools for further pupils.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5659

Derbyniwyd: 21/09/2009

Ymatebydd: MS Judith Bennett

Objects to the proposed development at King's Hill for the following reasons:
1. This could lead to an increase in the population of up to 14,000 people and the existing health, education and other facilities would be unable to cope with a knock-on effect on existing residents.
2. Green Belt land should be protected from development in order to prevent towns from merging. This is what will happen if the development goes ahead.
3. The area is attractive, unspoilt, rural landscape and is teeming with wildlife and flora. This should be maintained for future generations.
4. The development would impact on drainage and cause an increase in flooding.
5. The Water Treatment Works would need to be expanded causing increased traffic between Coventry and Kenilworth and increased pollution and noise as well as placing further pressure on the River Sowe.
6. An increase in homes means an increase in jobs and hence traffic.
7. There are currently 400 houses lying empty in the city
8. Residents need to be kept informed by Coventry City and Warwick District Councils

Cefnogi

ID sylw: 5661

Derbyniwyd: 20/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Jane Boynton

Support.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5685

Derbyniwyd: 21/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Graham J. P. White

Objects to development at King's Hill for the following reasons:
1. The government edict to build more homes is flawed.
2. Building on such a large scale cannot be justified by new employment.
3. The development will have undesirable effect on local communities and everyday life.
4. Loss of Green Belt land.
5. There will be a string of development from Hinckley through to Coventry and kenilworth.
6. The area suffers from poor drainage and there will be large costs for sewerage and water supplies.
7. The costs of providing the infrastructure will be immense.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5704

Derbyniwyd: 22/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Roger Warren

Danger of Coventry spilling over into Warwickshire, and endangering the green belt separating Coventry from Kenilworth.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5770

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Philip Wilson

Not in favour of expansion in this direction.

Sylw

ID sylw: 5797

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: PG Swann

Possible fringe development " adjacent to the built -up area of Coventry" please be cautious about the time and effort involved, and especially the financing of the infrastructure of any new Coventry fringe development. Past practice shows that in such cases local resources (eg: WDC & WCC) can easily be 'wasted', due to subsequent boundary reviews - before the financial benefits accrue! All pain, no gain!

Cefnogi

ID sylw: 5853

Derbyniwyd: 13/10/2009

Ymatebydd: Pamela Payne

Support.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5915

Derbyniwyd: 05/10/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr and Mrs C G Price

Though it does not apply to our area consult the people it does.