Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I am writing to you to raise my objection to the proposed plan to build 360 new houses off Back lane. The following is the outline of the objections.

Great Ashby was built with a minimum of 1.5 parking spaces per household. By reducing parking, which already is extremely tight and limited, it will take it below the minimum legal requirements set out by the government of the day. This is illegal and therefore, should you continue with the plan we will be seeking compensation from you.

Traffic on Great Ashby way is extremely busy, it is a major bus route and local residents are using this road for parking. This on its own is causing huge tail backs and causing major congestion, which will only get worse once the planning goes ahead, not to mention the number of HGV using the road around the clock.

By widening the roads, they will reduce the grass verges and trees along Mendip thus putting lives at risk as the houses will be so close to the road (if someone trips and falls, the chances are they will be already on the road!) There will be no safe ways for buggies, mobility scooters, etc as the pavements will not be wide enough, No pavements on bin days, thus forcing school children walk on the busy highway which is already overloaded with major bus routes.

Closure of Back lane. All traffic from Weston will be tunneled via Haybluff, Mendip and Bray Drive.

HGV construction traffic = disruption and movement of ground. What about parking while the removal of grass verges and trees take place/

Mendip way will be reduced to 10 parking spaces, Haybluff drive 8 parking spaces, Bray Drive 14; Nevis Road 14 spaces. Option 2 will only give us 69 spaces with 3 trees left. What about local residents who are using the road to park. Currently along Bray drive well over 200 cars are parking up and down the road, reducing the parking down to 14 will cause all residents to be unable to park their cars.

Assuming each house hold have an average of 2 cars, this will mean over 700 cars been parked on the road, in addition to the huge volume of cars already been parked along these major routes, this will mean over congested roads, unsafe, and putting local residents and children living in these communities at risk.

It is your duty of care to safeguard children, elderly, disabled and school children. Accepting this proposal to continue will result in placing the lives of children, and other people at risk of death.