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ID sylw: 106452

Derbyniwyd: 24/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Individual Care Services

Asiant : Individual Care Services

1. The projected capacity of the land for housing is stated as 1046, This density is unrealistic, and the numbers are likely to be in the range of 1500 to possibly 1800.
2. The land performs a valuable Green Belt function in preventing urban sprawl. Release of a large area of Green Belt would potentially lead to further extensions of development and infilling. The land performs a valuable Green Belt function in safeguarding the Countryside.
3. Development on this elevated and prominent land with 2 and 3 storey buildings would have a major impact on an area with high landscape value. This is admitted in the Lepus Report.
4. While Lepus ranks the site highly for educational provision, the local schools are over-subscribed.
5. Increasing the population of Studley by 40+% would significantly change the character of the village of Studley. The hamlet of Middletown would effectively be transformed from a small rural settlement to a suburb of Studley-cum-Redditch.
6. Lepus score the site as ‘best’ in terms of health provision. However local GP facilities are over-stretched; there is no NHS dentistry and the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch has been under threat for some years.
7. Accessibility to facilities which are insufficient makes a nonsense of a claim in the Lepus report that the SG22 site would have a positive effect on connectivity. The meaning of this claim is incomprehensible.
8. Transportation is limited and specifically the crucial A448 junction connecting to Redditch is overloaded and not capable of being improved to provide greater capacity.
9. Development of the site would lead to more extensive ‘rat running’ through the village of Sambourne, exacerbating a known existing problem.
10. The land is valuable and productive for agriculture and should not be lost to development.