No response has been given by the council to the concerns raised by residents regarding the inaccessibility of the site, the resulting congestion that would be caused both during building and from the resulting increase on traffic volumes. This would also be a danger to pedestrians due to the narrow railway bridge and insufficient footpath that is the only access from that side of the village to the high street, the school, the doctors and library and is also the only access from the other side of the village to the railway station.
Any large scale development would remove the buffer of Green Belt between the village and the A1(M), which is due to be widened, causing increased noise and air pollution.
The local area has been prone to flooding and the current agricultural use of the land has to some degree helped to mitigate this, removal of this would make the situation worse. There is nothing in the plan that addresses this point.