Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

As there is no provision for increased local employment this will only increase traffic trying to leave the area.
The local roads are inadequate at the moment, any increase in housing will add to congestion and polution. The B197 is often at a standstill at peak periods and is also used as a diversionary route when the A1(M) is blocked it will not cope with any more traffic.
Access to the site is either via a narrow bridge in Gun Lane with a narrow footpath alongside it, extra traffic will add to the danger to pedestrians, often parents and children walking to the primary school, or via local lanes which are very narrow often with passing places to enable traffic to run in both directions. Neither of these options will cope with extra residential or construction traffic.
Parts of Gypsy Lane flood on occasions and the water can then spread through the gardens boardering it to Orchard Way and Broom Grove. This water runs off the neighbouring field when the ground is saturated, building here will only exacerbate the problem.
Government policy is to protect the Green Belt, this is Green Belt.