The proposed use of this land is wholly inappropriate because it is totally lacking in infrastructure and requires vehicular access on roads which are unable to cope with existing volumes of vehicle movements let alone the volumes which would be generated by an additional 360 dwellings during and after construction.
The use of green belt land for an unwanted and totally lacking development cannot be justified.
There are no medical facilities in Great Ashby and it's only primary school is heavily oversubscribed. There is no secondary school provision and a complete lack of a public house/restaurant.
New residents will need to access medical and school facilities in other areas of Stevenage which are already overloaded.
Great Ashby has been constructed on a shoe-string using minimum standards appropriate at the time. Our garages are too narrow to accommodate modern vehicles and off road parking is negligible thus forcing residents to park on roads constructed with a minimum width thereby creating areas which emergency vehicles cannot access. Unbelievably, it is along these very roads that construction traffic and subsequent new residents will be required to travel.
I understand that Great Ashby Community Council and the adjoining parishes of Graveley and Weston have commissioned a Transport Planning and Assessment consultant whose report states quite categorically that the original traffic assessment is deeply flawed and should be rejected as inadequate thereby rendering the development of the Roundwood site as in need of substantial re-planning.