Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

As residents of Stopsley ward of Luton, we have great concerns of the proposed plan to build houses on this green field land.

The existing roads that will almost certainly take the brunt of construction, and future residents traffic, will be Ashcroft Road and Wigmore Lane, being the only present direct access from the A505 to the proposed development.

These roads are already suffering from increased traffic use, for the ever expanding Airport, and local schools, and as LBC have no plans to reduce the amount of traffic using these residential streets, things will only decline.

Although the development is supposed to provide some sort of spine road linking to the A505 this will not happen until 2031,if at all, as previous planned bypasses in Luton dating back to the 1960s have never been built, and continue to cause congestion on an ever increasing scale.

Our other issue is that no green belt land should be used until all brown field sites have been exhausted, this however does not suit the developers, as green field sites are cheaper to develop than brown field, cut out infrastructure costs and they have a profitable site, albeit at the expense of the existing local population.

This area is already over populated, and over used for industry and the airport, how much more pollution and traffic do we have accept in this once pleasant residential area, every house built will mean at least another two vehicles.