Object
Draft Local Plan-Part 2 Site Allocations
Representation ID: 20377
Received: 03/03/2020
Respondent: Sarah Smith
I utterly object to this development. I cannot believe that any development was ever passed on this site in the first instance. With the sickening increase in the amount of traffic passing, on narrow roads, through our village this will only make matters even more treacherous. No-one dares walk alongside the B1150 to access the village centre as it’s too frightening and dangerous with the one narrow path and enormous lorries and speeding traffic.
Westbourne Road only has one pavement, is narrow and a much relied on bus route. This leads onto the B1150 at one end and Rectory Road at the other (the location of the proposed site). Rectory Road is also narrow with cars parking along one side making access difficult. Rectory Road is the location of a football field, Primary School, park, Cricket ground, Bowls club, Pre-school, Doctors Surgery and village hall.
Westbourne Road and Rectory road is the ONLY SAFE HAVEN left in our village after the NDR opened and the affects of the traffic travelling through from outside our village in order to access it. To add more houses, more car journeys to an already unacceptable situation is just ridiculous. All this will serve to do is suck more traffic up a quiet, safe route used by most people in order to access all the amenities mentioned above. Not to mention the strain on the schools, surgery etcetera. Coltishall used to be a holiday destination. Sadly, signs listing us as the ‘Broads National Park’ doesn’t mask the uncomfortable, polluting, noisy and terrifying amounts of cars and articulated lorries passing through constantly. Not quite a holiday destination any more.
In short, too many cars already, too much strain on local amenities, most importantly removing the last safe haven in our village used by children and others as it is the location of a large amount of amenities.
I utterly object to this development. I cannot believe that any development was ever passed on this site in the first instance. With the sickening increase in the amount of traffic passing, on narrow roads, through our village this will only make matters even more treacherous. No-one dares walk alongside the B1150 to access the village centre as it’s too frightening and dangerous with the one narrow path and enormous lorries and speeding traffic.
Westbourne Road only has one pavement, is narrow and a much relied on bus route. This leads onto the B1150 at one end and Rectory Road at the other (the location of the proposed site). Rectory Road is also narrow with cars parking along one side making access difficult. Rectory Road is the location of a football field, Primary School, park, Cricket ground, Bowls club, Pre-school, Doctors Surgery and village hall.
Westbourne Road and Rectory road is the ONLY SAFE HAVEN left in our village after the NDR opened and the affects of the traffic travelling through from outside our village in order to access it. To add more houses, more car journeys to an already unacceptable situation is just ridiculous. All this will serve to do is suck more traffic up a quiet, safe route used by most people in order to access all the amenities mentioned above. Not to mention the strain on the schools, surgery etcetera. Coltishall used to be a holiday destination. Sadly, signs listing us as the ‘Broads National Park’ doesn’t mask the uncomfortable, polluting, noisy and terrifying amounts of cars and articulated lorries passing through constantly. Not quite a holiday destination any more.
In short, too many cars already, too much strain on local amenities, most importantly removing the last safe haven in our village used by children and others as it is the location of a large amount of amenities.