Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

In essence I believe that for the Wigmore/Cockernhoe area

*The infrastructure and transportation networks are not inadequately addressed (something that both LBC and NHDC have both voiced concerns over)
*There is no justifiable need to declassify land east of Luton from its Green Belt status. Viable alternatives exist so the Local Plan is not in accordance with the National Framework Planning Policy since it is not "absolutely necessary"
*In light of the number of other planned projects/developments air quality and pollution caused by the road traffic (cars and other transport) has not been properly assessed in the residential areas around the airport
*Cockernhoe Village would no longer even exist - the proposal would destroy an entire rural community and it would change the character of the area to an unacceptably
*The transport assessments undertaken are questionable in that they did not seemingly include the impact of all new developments in the vicinity (see list below) they were not carried out over a long enough period, and supposedly some studies from LBC made assumptions about roads that did not even exist!.

This proposed development will have an impact on all of Luton; but Wigmore, Stopsley, Eaton Green, St Anne's, Round Green, Stockingstone Road, Vauxhall Way, New Airport Way and even as far as the already over-stretched Luton and Dunstable Hospital in particular

The building of 2000+ houses will add to the already unacceptable road congestion especially in the light of the Airport's general expansion, the Luton Airport industrial zone, the Napier Park/Sterling Plaza development and to a slightly lesser extent the Luton Town FC/ Power Court development, which are all planned simultaneously for this side of town.

If you consider that Cockernhoe village currently comprises approximately 50 houses then the expansion threat is a massive 4,000+ per cent! - this is wholly disproportionate. Wigmore area itself currently consists of some 4,500 houses, so the proposal is not far off a 50% expansion for the whole area, therefore for satisfactory provision of infrastructure to be maintained it must be matched by a 50% expansion in infrastructure - so half of every public service available in Wigmore; ranging from shops and retail outlets, car parks, secondary and primary schools, petrol stations, policing, fire and health services etc would need to be also expanded. One has to question where the money/space for all this will come from?
Please consider this correspondence as a request to change the Local Plan and participate in the Examination.