Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

I would like to protest against the inclusion of site BK3 in the local plan for Barkway.
Our village is small and historic. We are not allowed street lights we have no shop. Public transport is a joke and the village school only goes up to year 4. There is no doctors surgery or any means of obtaining medicines.
We were considered so lacking in facilities the travellers decided we were a completely unsuitable site.
The proposal to build such a huge amount of new houses is madness. Especially as one of the points made at the presentation was a very high proportion of social housing.
Putting families of limited means in the middle of nowhere is unlikely to be successful for either them or our village.
The other major discrepancy is the number of car movements which has been estimated at 50 per day.
All the households in the village require cars, more than 2 per household ( we have 5 as our children still live at home ) so realistically it will start as 2 cars per household and will increase as cars are vitally necessary to do anything. That will be a minimum of 280plus car movements. More if school runs are considered.
The local school does not have capacity for a huge number of children who will have to attend other village schools nearby.
As a village we have worked hard on our local plan trying to preserve the historic nature of the village but recognising that there is a need for further housing. So far the recent small developments have been sympathetic and not altered the nature of our village.

This development will open the doors to Barkway becoming a new old Stevenage and will ruin everything that both our village and the council conservation officers have fought for over the years.

Large scale developments should take place where the infrastructure is available to accommodate them and the decision should not be based on the fact that landowners feel it is a good idea.
I might like the idea of a satellite dish but would need permission to do so. I can't even paint my house without being given permission and discussions about permitted colours.

I am also at a loss as to why our village plan was not ratified when we worked so hard in it.
We are just not set up to accommodate this level of development and am amazed that anyone has considered it a good idea because it is obvious to anyone that it isn't. The only benefits would be to the landowners and they should not be the only opinions considered.