Comment
Draft Local Plan-Part 2 Site Allocations
Representation ID: 21893
Received: 11/03/2020
Respondent: Mr Edward Clark
1.Road safety issue for vehicles and more importantly for pedestrians. It seems tome that safety issues were either disregarded or dealt with only as an afterthought when the new development at The Hops was built and that this is being repeated re the proposed adjacent site – namely lack of footpath provision on the busy and quite narrow B1108. I have seen some reference to an intended pedestrian refuge opposite Ironside Way. In fact this will be no better than the “Hops” refuge which is inadequate to accommodate prams/ pushchairs and on which crossing can be an intimidating experience – and a new refuge and vehicle entrance would be dangerously clos to the bend on entering the village.
2.Drainage is already a problem which was never properly addressed when The Hops was built and will be hugely exacerbated by construction on this proposed site.
1.Road safety issue for vehicles and more importantly for pedestrians. It seems tome that safety issues were either disregarded or dealt with only as an afterthought when the new development at The Hops was built and that this is being repeated re the proposed adjacent site – namely lack of footpath provision on the busy and quite narrow B1108. I have seen some reference to an intended pedestrian refuge opposite Ironside Way. In fact this will be no better than the “Hops” refuge which is inadequate to accommodate prams/ pushchairs and on which crossing can be an intimidating experience – and a new refuge and vehicle entrance would be dangerously clos to the bend on entering the village.
2.Drainage is already a problem which was never properly addressed when The Hops was built and will be hugely exacerbated by construction on this proposed site.