Object

Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation

Representation ID: 6546

Received: 31/01/2019

Respondent: Dr A Jickells

Representation Summary:

This is Green Belt, does not constitute rounding off and should not be built on. Knowle cannot accommodate this development especially alongside Site 9, as there are too many houses and the traffic will use the junction with Warwick Road, worsening congestion.
Concept Masterplan
No details of how Purnell's Brook or the Streamside Trust nature reserve would be protected, and not all protected trees and hedgerows shown.

Full text:

The site is currently Green Belt and should be retained as such. The "rounding off" phase is just an excuse for encroachment into the Green Belt. The movement of the football fields to provide houses takes further Green Belt land.
There are too many houses proposed. This must be considered along with the Site 9, Arden Triangle proposal and is too much for Knowle to accommodate.
All the traffic from this site will go along the Hampton Rd. to the Warwick Rd., making traffic worse at the junction.
There is no account of how the Purnels Brook would be protected. This stream flows into the Blythe a sensitive river system.
The map does not show all the protected trees and hedge rows.
The proposal does not address the protection of the Streamside trust nature reserve which it abuts.