Sharmans Cross Housing Development - LDP / Proposed Housing allocation 18

I am writing to express my total opposition to the proposal to build 100 houses on the site of the former rugby ground on Sharmans Cross Road. The grounds for my objection are as follows: -

The excessive density of housing that such a development would create, would be totally out of character with surrounding housing development. Such a large development would have an extremely detrimental effect on the surrounding area, particularly in respect of traffic congestion and pressure on other infrastructure - schools, medical centres, drainage etc. The area already suffers from an existing potential flooding problem. A substantial increase in hard areas will inevitably worsen this problem and its attendant drainage and sewage problems. I would add that any attempt to access this proposed site from Winterbourne Road would have similarly detrimental effects and produce traffic chaos in Winterbourne, Beaminster and Dorchester roads, as well as having a hugely damaging environmental impact on these roads and their residents.

In conclusion, I would add that I fully understand the LDP's requirement to meet Central Government's housing targets. I would, therefore, humbly suggest that a more modest and realistic target, say 25 new homes, would be more in line with the character of the area and avoid many of the obvious detrimental impacts of the existing proposal.

Yours faithfully,