Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

My objections to the development of land north-east of Stevenage are that the designated sites are on green belt with inadequate access and are lacking the necessary infrastructure to support them.
I do not believe that sufficient attention has been given to the development of brown field sites, the development of land west of Stevenage or the provision of a New Town between Baldock and Royston.
The road access is totally inadequate to support the designated areas both during and after construction. This applies to estate roads in Great Ashby and the 'A' roads feeding Stevenage town centre, the bus and train stations, the industrial areas and the A1(M) motorway.
Great Ashby is devoid of a doctors' surgery, dental surgery and other health related services. There is one heavily over-subscribed primary school and no secondary school provision. In addition public transport to a destination other than the town centre is non-existent.

The proposed use of this land is wholly inappropriate because it is totally lacking in infrastructure and requires vehicular access on roads which are unable to cope with existing volumes of vehicle movements let alone the volumes which would be generated by an additional 360 dwellings during and after construction.
The use of green belt land for an unwanted and totally lacking development cannot be justified.
There are no medical facilities in Great Ashby and it's only primary school is heavily oversubscribed. There is no secondary school provision and a complete lack of a public house/restaurant.
New residents will need to access medical and school facilities in other areas of Stevenage which are already overloaded.
Great Ashby has been constructed on a shoe-string using minimum standards appropriate at the time. Our garages are too narrow to accommodate modern vehicles and off road parking is negligible thus forcing residents to park on roads constructed with a minimum width thereby creating areas which emergency vehicles cannot access. Unbelievably, it is along these very roads that construction traffic and subsequent new residents will be required to travel.
I understand that Great Ashby Community Council and the adjoining parishes of Graveley and Weston have commissioned a Transport Planning and Assessment consultant whose report states quite categorically that the original traffic assessment is deeply flawed and should be rejected as inadequate thereby rendering the development of the Roundwood site as in need of substantial re-planning.

This site should be rejected because it is unnecessarily utilising green belt land and does not contain adequate infrastructure to support a development of 600 homes adjacent to Great Ashby, a community of nearly 6,000 residents which in itself is lacking health service facilities and a secondary school.
Access to the site via Great Ashby Way and Mendip Way is abysmal and based on an inadequate traffic survey which has been proved to be seriously flawed by a traffic consultant commissioned by Great Ashby Community Council, Graveley and Weston Parish Councils.
If these sites were to be approved together with NS1 it will achieve absolute coalescence for Great Ashby and Graveley with Stevenage Borough, a situation which informed residents seek to avoid.