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New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 44246
Received: 08/09/2021
Respondent: Mr Colton Payne
CFS064
I believe infrastructure assessment first before land is presented to residents for planning. The new houses CFS064 will have a feeder road into Westminster Drive and then Buckingham Road. This is the only road off "Betts Farm Estate" which also has a primary school with parents in cars leaving the estate. Then onto the busiest "B" road (B1013) in the UK. More traffic, more pollution, more people using the already over stretched services. This is a field that produces crops and is on the green belt. There is also a public right of way around the field. This is a green corridor for deer, foxes and badgers and this development will displace this wild life. We have ancient woodland and nature reserves at risk. There is a brook which runs from CFS064 a long the side of the community centre under the road into Westminster Drive under the railway track to a culvert into the farmers field. In 2013, 6 houses at Westminster drive were flooded. On average £70,000 per house to repair due to flood damage. So, sustainable drainage system will need to be included as part of the development to reduce the risk of flooding. The houses that are being planned will not be affordable for local first time buyers. Most of the houses will be sold to people moving out of London or for Afghan migrants. The infrastructure will not cope. Roads, doctors, hospitals, schools - primary and secondary, nurseries, drainage etc. This site is not suitable!
CFS064
I believe infrastructure assessment first before land is presented to residents for planning. The new houses CFS064 will have a feeder road into Westminster Drive and then Buckingham Road. This is the only road off "Betts Farm Estate" which also has a primary school with parents in cars leaving the estate. Then onto the busiest "B" road (B1013) in the UK. More traffic, more pollution, more people using the already over stretched services. This is a field that produces crops and is on the green belt. There is also a public right of way around the field. This is a green corridor for deer, foxes and badgers and this development will displace this wild life. We have ancient woodland and nature reserves at risk. There is a brook which runs from CFS064 a long the side of the community centre under the road into Westminster Drive under the railway track to a culvert into the farmers field. In 2013, 6 houses at Westminster drive were flooded. On average £70,000 per house to repair due to flood damage. So, sustainable drainage system will need to be included as part of the development to reduce the risk of flooding. The houses that are being planned will not be affordable for local first time buyers. Most of the houses will be sold to people moving out of London or for Afghan migrants. The infrastructure will not cope. Roads, doctors, hospitals, schools - primary and secondary, nurseries, drainage etc. This site is not suitable!