I lived in Hainford for 15 years and know the site well.
It is totally unsuitable for development for the following reasons:
-Access to the site on Dumbs Lane is far too narrow being only wide enough for a single car.
-Dumbs Lane also has high banks and many blind corners with no footpaths for pedestrians. This makes it already dangerous to walk down to the church and school with current levels of traffic and will be made wholly worse if this increases.
-Due to the high water table in Hianford which is always a problem, the site floods at both ends during winter months. This water will flood the surrounding roads if it has nowhere to go due to large areas of paving.
-There are no jobs, shops or amenities within Hainford and with a poor bus services, any future residents will have no choice but to use private cars. This development will increase traffic on already unsuitable, poorly maintained and dangerous roads to pedestrians that were never designed for cars.
-If development is to take place within the village, other sites are better suited such as those proposed on the much wider Hall Road or on the old scrapyard.
-Central government's focus for development is for local authorities to utilize brownfield sites before green field. With Hainford Hall and the former scrap yard grounds empty, surely this must be used first.
-The original neighborhood plan outlined areas that were preferable for development and focused on infilling. This would have not only allowed development to take place and at a more sustainable rate, but preserved the villagescape and the green spaces. What was wrong with this?
-This development will create over density in one area with too much housing all back to back in one area.
-Once these green areas are developed, they are gone forever.