Object

Representation ID: 14980

Received: 11/12/2020

Respondent: Mrs Jean Walters

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Part of Site BL1 (parcel south of Tythe Barn Lane) objected to on number of grounds:
Traffic, congestion and parking:
- Roads and infrastructure not originally designed to accommodate this increase
- Number of new housing estates (2,252 dwellings) between 2011 and 2018 have caused considerable congestion at peak times.
- Parking problems in village centre
- Village road network not designed for this level of car traffic, and designed to discourage through traffic by narrow roads and sharp bends; buses have difficulty using some of village roads
- Narrow rural roads and historic hedgerows make it difficult to accommodate required road improvements to take more traffic.
- High existing car dependency in Dickens Heath village.
- Parked cars create long tailbacks and considerable congestion
- Undeliverable for pedestrian or walking routes to pass through Birchy Close as this will be strongly resisted by residents.
- Additional car trips to village from BL1 will exacerbate parking problems, which are already at capacity.
- Birchy Leasowes/Dickens Heath Road junction cannot be improved as it is adjoins ancient woodland and LWS – there are no footpaths, and this is shortest route to village.
- Site conflicts with objectives on p.18, and Para. 582