LDP - Proposed Housing Allocation 18
, I am writing to ask you to record my objections to the above application to convert sports facilities in Sharmans Cross Road to a housing development.

My understanding is that the site is a designated sports facility and has to be retained as such, thus rendering it unavailable for anything but sporting pursuits.

I believe that there have been previous applications to develop the site for housing but these have either been declined or withdrawn for this reason. Quite apart from this, the site would be unsuitable for development for many reasons. Not least of these is the fact that it is very close to a tricky and potentially dangerous junction with Streetsbrook Road, Stonor Park Road and Dorchester Road. Traffic is at a standstill at this junction from all entries for quite long periods during the day and the inevitable addition to the volume of traffic from the development would be both detrimental and dangerous.

In addition, I have been aware on numerous occasions of flooding to part of Sharmans Cross Road towards the junction with Streetsbrook Road which suggests that drainage in that area is difficult and the addition of a large number of houses in the vicinity together with the destruction of wide areas of grass would surely exacerbate this problem.

I should be obliged if you would give due consideration to my objections to this scheme when it comes up for consideration

(Resident in the vicinity of the site).