1. Extra pressure on A140 with slow vehicles more regularly using this stretch. This is a very busy stretch of road for most of the day. I live in Swainsthorpe and it can often take between 5-10 minutes to get out of or enter Church road due to the volume of traffic. At busy times traffic can tail back from Newton Flotman, past the junction with Church Road. Any change to the road involving a roundabout would exacerbate this problem. This is proven by the weekend road maintenance that happened on Sunday 18th November. When I tried to access the A140 from Church Road, it took nearly 10 minutes to do this. I managed to get onto the A140 only because another driver let me out as traffic was tailing back as far as the eye could see in the direction of Newton Flotman. It took a further 10 minutes to get through the temporary lights which were positioned where the proposed entrance to this site would be. On returning home, traffic was queued past the entrance to Dunston Hall and it took a futher ten minutes from this point to reach the junction at Swainsthorpe. If a roundabout was put here, causing traffic to stop, the main artery from Ipswich would be severely impaired. Add to this, the increased number of slow moving vehicles along this road as a result of having hem on this site would increase the danger of driving along this stretch.
2. Could the proposer guarantee that farm vehicles will not be stored in other areas around the village? We regularly have 4X4s with long trailers containing farm materials and large tractors being stored in our PRIVATE car park. This has caused damage to curbs and grass verges when they drive over them. This behaviour has continued in spite of requests to farm workers from Ben Burgess to stop. This is anti-social behaviour on private land and is very dangerous when they speed round the area where our children play. My concern is that, if farm vehicles are stored nearby, our private car park will increasingly be used as an overflow car park thus increasing the danger to our children and residents.
3. Aesthetic appearance of the village and environmental damage. This proposal is on a green field site. There are plenty of other brown field sites ripe for development which would not further damage the environment around the village. 4. The site proposed is out of proportion with the size of the village. Swainsthorpe would become a 'tag-on' to this site and this would affect house prices.