I attended an initial presentation of the development on Rectory several years ago when my children were still at the primary school. At the time I remember being told that 1.5 parking spaces were allowed per property and that money would be given re school, etc to support local community. However, when I questioned about the money I was advised that it would go to the council but not be specifically ring fenced for school/doctors etc.

The traffic on Rectory road was bad when I used to do the school run 3 years ago. The road rage of parents trying to get their children to school, most taking to their cars (few walked despite constant ‘walk to school schemes’)lack of parking as residents park outside their own terrace houses and limited car parks, doctors surgery on same dead end road as school plus the one way system all make it an absolute bottle neck on Rectory Road. I did object to the proposed development at the time.

The car congestion will get worse with the number of houses already granted permission. Indeed I see it where I live, most families have more than one car and the excess cars clog up the road.

The school is at capacity, there is no space to expand being a relatively a small site and the lunches have to already be done in two sittings due to lack of hall space. This was all 3 years ago, I am sure the situation hasn’t improved. They had absolutely no spare space. The doctors surgery is stretched already.

The bus would certainly not get down Rectory Road if this development went ahead. It is a valuable service for many residents who rely on public transport, several elderly who cannot get into the main high street to pick it up. The school bus also takes the route down Rectory road, which would again cause difficulties for high school pupils.

I totally object to further development on Rectory Road, it isn’t the right place. This has come up many times and parishioners have constantly objected. I accept that there has to be development, but this is the wrong location. The village is so congested with the extra traffic due to increased traffic flow of late re NDR etc. We just don’t have the infrastructure to cope with the volume of houses and the extra people/traffic.

I hope you will listen to the opinion of local people.