I would like it recorded that I strongly object to the proposal of using Swan Field, on Hardingham Road for the possible siting of a new housing estate.
To begin with any heavy vehicular traffic would have to enter this site by way of Ringers Lane/ Hardingham Road, or Hardingham Street, as access along Hardingham Road from Hardingham is totally unsuitable for this type of traffic. This would mean endangering pedestrians who often use this route whilst walking to the doctors surgery on Hardingham Street and into the town and also mothers and fathers who regularly walk this route with their small children to the Hingham school. The pavements along this route are extremely poor and in places non existent which means having to walk in the road with pushchairs and mobility aids. Along this route there is also no street lighting making visibility extremely poor during early morning and late afternoons/ evenings.
There is no road drainage along Hardingham Road and this area is particularly bad in cases of heavy rain. During the winter months in times of ice and snow, there are no gritters or road cleaning services in place which all means that SAFETY for pedestrians and homeowners is of paramount importance. Allowing heavy vehicles to regularly use this route could be extremely dangerous.
Even at this time, work has been going on for some months on the new complex for the specialised supported living apartments on Hardingham Rd and heavy vehicles have been blocking the road whilst unloading and loading of heavy plant causing problems. They have destroyed grass verges and forced people to walk into the road to get past them. Covered the road in mud and making the area unsightly. This is totally unexceptable and could only get worse if the development for Swan Field was to go ahead.
There are plenty of other locations where the infrastructure is basically already in place, which would be far more suited to this kind of development, which would not impede on the safety of persons young and old that require to walk this route on a daily basis.