Cefnogi

ID sylw: 5927

Derbyniwyd: 28/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr Alan Roberts

If WDC consider it suitable for Coventry overspill why cannot Warwick District allocation be there too?

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5961

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Nicholas Solman

Object to Kings Hill site:
Current transport links to centre of Coventry and University of Warwick insufficient to cope with volume of traffic during peak hours. More dwellings would reduce transport network to gridlock. Massive expansion of road network needed on Stoneleigh Road, Green Lane, St Martin's Road, Leamington Road and A45.
Current physical state of Coventry roads appalling - situation would worsen.
Schools - Finham Park designed for 1000 pupils, already 1500. New school needed before new housing developed or children will have to be bussed to Kenilworth. Grid lock around existing schools and Stoneleigh Road after 8am in the morning, no options viable.
Type of housing - As would be in Warwick District would 40% affordable apply? Coventry is 25% but wants luxury housing, therefore Coventry standard should apply as residents will be using Coventry infrastructure and there is no shortage of affordable housing in Coventry.
South Coventry short of shops and other local amenities meaning residents have to travel to centre of Coventy or supermarkets. Introduce a new Finham High Street - could this be demanded of developer?
If development goes ahead, would make sense to conduct boundary review and place land within Coventry City.
Kings Hill is spot of real natural beauty that cannot be ignored - don't take that away.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5973

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Peter and Sarah Watson

Nifer y bobl: 2

We object to the use of designated green belt land for the building of an estate of 3500 houses on what is at present agricultural land.

Cefnogi

ID sylw: 6002

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Debbie Harris

Support.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6029

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Paul Skidmore

The shear size of the prospected development is far higher than any other area, the existing roads couldn't cope with this increase they struggle at certain times now. The area is currently green belt and to wipe if off the map is not the best idea.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6058

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: John and Jill Woodward

Increased traffic congestion causing additional CO2 pollution in an already busy traffic area following further development of Warwick University and Science Park.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6079

Derbyniwyd: 23/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr Stephen Skidmore

The site at Kings Hill is open access to country at the edge of town. The area roads, schools, junctions and doctors could not cope with this amount of influx.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6100

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Graham and Gail Clews

Object to Kings Hill site:
Green belt - shortage in Coventry and should be kept as it is for as long as possible.
Other areas are desperate for re-building to benefit and improve areas, Finham is not one of them.
Area already under pressure with struggling resources, schools, shops, side road, congested highways - would only worsen with new houses.
Search for other areas which would be beneficial to all.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6104

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Sandra Ingram

Object to Kings Hill site:
Traffic is bad enough on approach to A45/St Martin's Road.
Environment is bad enough without more cars/buses/lorries etc.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6106

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Phil Henderson

Object to Kings Hill site:
Traffic is bad enough on approach to A45/St Martin's Road.
Environment is bad enough without more cars/buses/lorries etc.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6108

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Alan John Trinder

Object to Kings Hill site:
Grave reservations about loss of green belt.
Doubt whether Coventry can attract employment to make Kings Hill development justifiable sacrifice.
Roads, rail, shops, water, schools, libraries, leisure and community facilities - would they be funded by developer? Would increased traffic necessitate widening of Kenilworth Road and construction of southern relief road?
Wholly unsustainable and lead to further development.
Warwick's expansion should be accommodated in the population centres of Warwick and not Coventry, through distributed developments across urban areas rather than urban extension in neighbouring authorities.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6113

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Stephen Trinder

Object to Kings Hill site:
Warwick DC's expansion should be accommodated near population centres in Warwickshire and not added onto Coventry.
Kings Hill would be a magnet for developers that Coventry and Warwick would make a lot of money from.
Insufficient evidence that Coventry would be able to attract sufficeint jobs to warrant such expansion. Kings Hill may become dormitory suburb or ghost suburb with many unemployed.
Finham is already badly served by road, rail, water, shops, schools, libraries, leisure and community centre infrastructure and proposals for possible park and ride and rail halt along Stoneleigh Road would be inadequate.
Pressure on road and rail infrastructure would lead to widening of beautiful approach to city along Kenilworth Road and to construction of southern relief road. This would irreparably damage lovely countryside that provides green lung for city and would lead to merging of Coventry and Kenilworth.
Do not believe it to be in the best interests of people of Warwickshire and Coventry for the green belt to be obliterated.
Local road network would be unable to cope. Record for developers providing infrastructure is not good.
Proposals contravene Planning Policy Guidance - regarding urban sprawl and other regarding visual impact.
Kings Hill high giving excellent views of Coventry and some of Warwickshire countryside.
Large numbers of children would require schooling as families move in. Local schools would be unable to cope.
Development may well include playing fields of Finham Park School at a time when there is obesity problem among children.
Flooding concerns and poor drainage along Kings Hill and the southern section of Green Lane - concerns that it will only get worse.
Green belt between Coventry and Kenilworth will be reduced to a few hundred yards in places.
Great pressure put on wildlife haven of Wainbody Wood and designed local Nature Reserve and part of diminishing ancient woodland - flytipping and motorcycle riding through the wood, vandalism and criminal damage. This wood is one of Coventry's finest natural assets and despite any buffer zone around the wood, it is likely grave damage would be caused.
This part of Coventry has few social homes and 40% social housing mix would give concern as rich pickings for new residents who don't wish to make contribution but seek to live by criminality. Poorer parts of any city contain criminals and anti-social people and many moving into social housing are fine, simply looking for affordable place to live, but sadly statistics tell their own story.
Would cause destruction of special landscape quality.
Would boost damaging proposals for southern relief road on attractive and arable land. Noise would be considerable.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6118

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: M.O. Trinder

Object to Kings Hill site:
Finhams infrastructure is already overburdened and development of such large single site would place strain upon roads, rail, water, shops, schools, libraries and leisure and community services. Developers claim that they would develop such services but the scale of the challenge and their record for not doing so leads to doubt that people would be adequately catered for in future.
Deeply concerned that brownfield sites in Coventry and Warwickshire could remain unused whilst unsustainable development goes ahead leading to raft of new developments, such as southern relief road, about which we are not being consulted.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6121

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: N G Fletcher

Object to Kings Hill site:
Green belt land should be protected at all costs and so called brown sites should be looked at first, which does not seem to be the case.
Concerned that greatly increased traffic would have (detrimental effect) on our environment and community.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6142

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mrs Angela Fryer

Object to Kings Hill site:
Would create urban sprawl joining Coventry, Kenilworth and Stoneleigh. Individual character would be destroyed.
Kings Hill good farm land which will become vital resource in future. Green agenda should protect green belt and encourage local growing to cut down on transportation.This development would destroy air quality and make mockery of green policy
Strategy should uphold Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull Biodiversity Plan.
Number of houses is not small but huge estate doubling existing size of Finham.
Figures include those which were never going to be able to be built within Coventry and are now to be built as overspill within Warwick's boundary on the edge of Coventry. Whole basis for numbers is unsound and should be rejected. Returning to original projections would increase numbers for Warwickshire, but could be dispersed across larger land mass. There are rural areas that need affordable housing to survive.
Coventry must demonstrate that all brownfield land has been used before any land release making Coventry adjust its numbers within their boundary and preserving green belt between Kenilworth and Coventry.
Plan is unsound and should be rejected.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6156

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Barry & Valerie Sankey

Nifer y bobl: 2

The site is unsuitable because it is cut off from existing travel routes; public transport is poor; new rail links are unrealistic and other services would be provided by Warwick an Warwickshire Councils. There are other opportunities for new housing that should be explored first such as the use of under-used and poor stock and alternative sites such as east of the A46 eastern bypass in Rugby Borough.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6167

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Finham Residents Association

Object to Kings Hill site:
Coventry's bid for 33,500 new homes too high for the amount of land it has to develop within its boundary. This target should be reduced. If Coventry has overspill to accommodate in Warwick, only three places on the borders it could be.
Ansty would have been far more suitable.
Kings Hill is green belt and should not be removed. Previous applications have been turned down on this basis.
A new development would be larger than the largest village in Warwick district and will not have the gradual growth of a village with community spirit and cohesion. Safest plan is to put new residents into established communities with 25 dwellings per local area, not altogether in isolated area.
WDC planning to have 50% affordable housing in all new developments - would seem better to dissipate.
Developers expect much earlier start on site than plan envisages - does not give confidence that site will be developed in phase 3 if at all. Green belt status should be retained until Coventry builds all designated sites and then review Kings Hill for suitability.
Finham poorly provided for. Limited access to A45, no community centre, no play facilities, narrow roads, limited drainage, limited bus service, old and limited sewers, few shops. Addiitonal schools and medical facilities would be needed. Could not take additional traffic flow.
Kings Hill composed of high proportions of waterlogged, porous sandstone and clay.Areas currently flood and this will increase when built on. Kings Hill is traversed by 54" (1375mm) dia foul water sewer leading to Finham Sewage Treatment Works. It also has underground processed crude oil product pipeline passing through it.
There are some 28 established ponds on the site that are naturally filled.
Foul odours from Finham Sewage Works associated with increasing throughput with dense vapours concentrated in Green Lane area by natural contours of surrounding land and prevailing wind. Some of the CO2 produced by the works is absorbed by the greenery at Kings Hill and redresses some of the oxygen depletion in the air. Must be a question as to how much more the treatment works can handle. Additional sewage and surface water run-off will end up here.
Kings Hill green belt separates Coventry from Kenilworth and stops spread of urban sprawl. It is high quality farming land which should be retained. Well recorded, unique biodiversity of area. Historical value of medieval villages, protected ancient hedges and trees. Geological irregular boulder.
Local drinking water extracted from beneath land south of Green Lane. Experience elsewhere shows houses built on such an area can seriously pollute this source.
New roads would have to be constructed.
Large development compared with other developments in core strategies and will be inhabited by people from outside area - more likely to experience social problems.
Most obvious area to develop is west of A46 from junction to Warwick, down to the junction with M40. Affords good transport links (road and rail) but close enough to Warwick to feel attached to established centre and create sense of belonging.
Should be more rural expansion to create housing for rural workers where previous accommodation is either too expensive or not available.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6170

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr Robert Green

Object to Kings Hill site:
Infrastructure not adequate to support this development.
Against all the current environmental concerns cover green belt land that provides a civilised buffer between towns and cities, in this case, Coventry and Kenilworth.
Concerned that there will not be enough employment in the city and surrounding area to justify this sort of expansion.
Not a NIMBY opinion, but genuine concern to protect attractive environment that everyone needs close to urban areas.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6174

Derbyniwyd: 15/10/2009

Ymatebydd: Myra Jackson

Object to Kings Hill site:
Development would affect air quality - trees and open rural countryside improve air quality. Besides directly intercepting pollutants trees can also influence the formation of a secondary pullutant ozone. Should look at planting more trees not houses.
Proximity of land to Finham Sewage works. Better to remain green belt where it provides excellent drainage. Smells can be created by water and sewage treatment - these can be dealt with by natural environment.
Ancient hedges, wildlife and beauty.
Never had good services such as buses and convenient shops, but have been content with nice open aspect.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6197

Derbyniwyd: 13/10/2009

Ymatebydd: John, Elaine and Sarah Lewis

Object

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6216

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mr Steven Abrol

Object to Kings Hill site:
This is green belt countryside and should be grade A listed countryside, permanently and not disturbed.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6235

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Colin Salt

Object to Kings Hill site:
Have enjoyed scores of years of living on tranquil fringe of city.
Any development should be to provide access to countryside with stiles and footpaths for recreation.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6267

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Ross Telford

It does not make sense to have Coventry encroach on land towards Kenilworth - Coventry population growth does not appear to require evermore land.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6350

Derbyniwyd: 18/09/2009

Ymatebydd: John Jessamine

Object.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6394

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Ed & Zoe Rycroft

Nifer y bobl: 2

This section of land is only there as an overflow from Coventry.

As Coventry has identified the 12 sites that can suitably accommodate all their allocation of houses, then I propose that the airport (already for sale) be used to take more of Warwickshire's allocation too, including the Coventry overspill.

Especially as you have already admitted in section 2 of the preferred options that the emerging WMRSS is seeking to address the upward trend of migration into the district from places like Coventry. This is a perfect opportunity for them to develop excellent sites within their own community.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6399

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Matthew Tipson

Lack of demonstrable evidence for new housing during economic dowturn and loss of jobs in the Coventry area.

Finaham are could not cope with the increased pressure on local services and infrastructure.

Cumulative loss of green belt if Warwick University development is included.

* The seemingly unbalanced and unhealthy allocation of the majority of housing to the Coventry conurbation, compared to Warwick and Solihull areas as agreed by the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Sub Regional Forum

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6401

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Mrs Helen Williams

Green Belt is irreplaceable and should be protected for future generations.
Building on this land would have a seriously detrimental effect on the quality of life of the people of Finham.
It will severely damage local wildlife and archaeology.

This area of the city is nice but already lacks certain services. It would not cope with extra people and traffic that housing would bring.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6402

Derbyniwyd: 24/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Allyson Green

Green belt land is an important resource which is essential for nature and well-being and we hold it in trust for future generations.
This would cause negative impacts on existing residents.
Loss of ecology and archaeological remains.

Loss of land not justifiable in terms of food and resource production.

Local services and infrastructure will not be able to cope.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6403

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Alan and Diane Mattocks

Nifer y bobl: 2

With the economic downturn and local unemployment rates, a new development is not a viable option.

The development will have a severe imapct on already congested roads, compromising safety for all users.

Loss of green belt and farmland is highly unacceptable.

Likely to increase surface water flooding.

Will narrow the gap between Kenilworth and Coventry.

Loss of habitat for various species.

Lack of infrastructure.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6405

Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Robin Green

The type of dwellings likely to be required, given that a significant proportion of demand for new housing nowadays is for single people, is not suitable for the King's Hill location.

Already busy road systems in and around Coventry would be placed under unsustainable pressure.
More houses will worsen the air pollution probelm at the Severn Trent sewage works.
Greenbelt should be protected for future generations.
ribbon development from Nuneaton through to Warwick would make sense in terms of the environment or the quality of life of those trapped in it.
damage to local wildlife and archaeological remains.