• Overlooking/loss of privacy - this will be directly
behind many residences and invade their privacy looking directly
into the current residents living space.
• Loss of light or overshadowing - most properties have south
or south west facing gardens so the new properties will obscure the
light to current residents property.
• Parking - Meadow Road is a narrow residential street with
very little parking space on both sides. The proposed development
does not look to have a significant proportion of housing allocated
to each property and therefore overspill would result in Current
residence being significantly impacted by extra cars trying to park
on their road.
• Highway safety - Due to cars parking on both sides of Meadow
road access and egress onto the site would be significantly
obscured, there would be little turning space in and out of this
site, the road is used as access to president Kennedy School
• Traffic- There are high levels of traffic morning and
evening accessing President Kennedy school, it is also used by
pedestrians are you schoolchildren to get president Kennedy School
and increase traffic in the area would be a risk to them.
• Noise - Residents currently have a peaceful outlook, almost
a nature reserve, behind their properties. The disruption caused by
the actual building of the site would be significant, and with the
impact of having 100+ residents at the bottom of their
gardens.
• Layout and density of building - Virtually every other
square-inch of Holbrooks Ward has been built on this is one of the
small areas left untainted by Development. It looks to be small
houses crammed into a small space with very little amenity land or
garden.
• Government policy :- Building on statutory allotment land is
only allowed when the allotment holders are offered alternative
sites.
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN00887/SN00887.pdf
• Proposals in the Development Plan - this land is not
allocated for housing the the local development plan.
• Nature conservation - This allotment area is a haven for
wildlife, there are various types of frogs toads and newts on the
side plus nesting bats in the trees surrounding the area.
• Environmental issues - Having been an allotment user on this
site Is it the water table is very high, I also know that there is
a significant problem with flooding on hols with present which will
only be exacerbated if this land is built on and it’s not
there to absorb the run-off from the surrounding area. The pond
that it is at the bottom of this development was part of a
sustainable urban drainage system which doesn’t work and
would be significantly impacted should these houses be
developed.
This ePetition ran from 03/11/2021 to 05/01/2022 and has now finished.
214 people signed this ePetition.