The KDBH Neighbourhood Forum's response to the 2016 consultation was critical of the lack of information on infrastructure impacts within KDBH and how they would be mitigated. Transport issues were a top local concern in the Neighbourhood Plan process. The 2016 objection concluded that "it is unreasonable to expect residents to accept any substantial further development in KDBH without any indication as to how the wider infrastructure impacts would be overcome". The Forum asked for more information to be made available on the infrastructure impacts of the scale of additional housing in KDBH to enable an informed response to be made. Almost no information has been forthcoming and it appears no real progress has been made in over 2 years as far as informing residents is concerned, despite the fact that the Council carried out its own traffic survey in the autumn of 2016. The lack of information concerning transport infrastructure is deeply unsatisfactory. We keep being told that this will be forthcoming in the submission version in summer 2019 but this is not acceptable. How can residents assess the impact of any traffic management plans when we do not know what these might be. We will apparently be told what these are in the summer of 2019 but will then have very little time, probably 6-8 weeks formal consultation period within which to assess these and respond to the Council. This is wholly unsatisfactory. We will be bombarded with significant amounts of information at a late stage in the process and will not have adequate time or resources to assess this properly.
With respect to sports and recreation facilities. these are needed on Knowle but the proposed location on Hampton Road is poorly located, far larger than is really needed and will have a detrimental impact upon the eastern approach to Knowle - see response to Q23