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Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

BK3 Land between Cambridge Road and Royston Road

Representation ID: 1974

Received: 23/11/2016

Respondent: Mrs Sonia Chisnall

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Object to BK3:
- Scale of development
- Highway infrastructure and congestion
- Parking requirements
- Public transport
- Carbon footprint
- Not consistent with the NPPF
- Landscape/village character

Full text:

I am writing to you to object to the access point onto Royston Road, Barkway (BK3) to then enable up to 100 houses and a shop to be built.
Firstly, this would be more traffic coming in and out of the village. The condition of the roads into Barkway are already inadequate. The Reed joint road is barely a 2 lane road for 2 cars, let alone lorries and heavy goods vehicles. It is full of pot holes at the edges causing damage to wheels of cars pulling over to allow bigger vehicles to pass. This is also the same on the Newsells Road with lots of sharp and blind corners as well as hills with accidents recently occurring, these roads would be even more hazardous if 100 houses are built.
Living in Windmill Close in Barkway, in the past couple of years, I have witnessed a younger generation of people with families moving into the bungalows and houses previously occupying older people. These newer families all have cars, most have 2 per property causing a big issue in parking down the road. This isn't helped by people not even living down our road parking here, some due to the new houses being built in Chapel Close. If the road is built where will the workers park their vehicles? Once the road is built and 100 houses built where will the construction vehicles and workers park? Once completed will there be enough parking for the houses allowing at least 2 cars per household? There is no plans to improve public transport in the village (which has a minimal bus service) so private cars will be essential. This will produce a higher carbon footprint for this village. Also with only the possibly of a shop being built on site which will only create a minimum amount of jobs people will need their cars to travel to work, shops and schools. (Contravention NPPF30, NPPF34, NPPF35, NOOF 38 and NPPF95 as well as NDHC policy SP 6- sustainable transport. And their sustainability objective 2c as well as NDHC policy 29).
BK3 is also outside the village boundary at present and building the houses would take away the character of Barkway by having a housing estate which will be separate from the rest of the village leading to low intergration of the residents within the rest of the community. It will also be a 62% growth in size of Barkway which is ridiculous when there will be a minimum amount of jobs created by the building of a shop, with no plans to improve public transport and other amenities.
I moved to Barkway for the village life for my family. I want fields around me as my views which can grow crops to provide food for us and not for it to be replaced by an estate of houses.

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