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10/17/2019 Mail - Woodgate, Jenny - Outlook Large development sites consultation Mon 07/10/2019 16:56 To: EHDC - Local Plan <[email protected]> 1 attachments (25 KB) MEDSTEAD FOUR MARKS BUILDING THREAT.docx; Please find enclosed my support for: NORTHBROOK PARK WHITEHILL & BORDON And my objections to; WEST OF LYMINGTON BOTTOM ROAD, SOUTH MEDSTEAD LAND SOUTH OF WINCHESTER ROAD FOUR MARKS SOUTH MEDSTEAD FOUR MARKS SOUTH The attachment to this email provides my reasons. https://outlook.office365.com/mail/none/id/AAMkADIxNjE3NWJlLTMxYmEtNDEwZC1iOGM4LTYxOTllYjNmN2MzZQBGAAAAAABrEkrzGtHSSpsf… 1/2 10/17/2019 Mail - Woodgate, Jenny - Outlook Best regards https://outlook.office365.com/mail/none/id/AAMkADIxNjE3NWJlLTMxYmEtNDEwZC1iOGM4LTYxOTllYjNmN2MzZQBGAAAAAABrEkrzGtHSSpsf… 2/2 SUPPORT TO NORTHBROOK PARK • Outstanding and innovative design, containing high levels of sustainability, with proven, proactive and effective engagement with the local community. • The proposal exhibits a strong sense of place, using the arrangement of streets, spaces and building types that creates an attractive, welcoming and distinctive places to live, work and visit. • It is underpinned by a village trust that is fully funded in perpetuity upfront by the landowner. This will manage community assets including village bus services, village hall, work hub, local pub, village stores and shops, playground, outdoor gym, village green and a village management team, thus creating an outstanding, unique sustainable community. • Safe and convenient access to and from the A31, and the creation of vehicle accessible routes that will ensure optimum traffic flow, east and west between Farnham and Alton • It is by far the preferable solution to meeting a substantial amount of the future housing needs of East Hampshire District Council. It fulfils the draft policy by concentrating a large proportion of development on one site that prevents sporadic development on areas where existing infrastructure is already stretched. • One land owner and one developer. • As well as the benefits from reinforcing existing communities there would be both significant direct inward investment into the local area through job creation (during the construction phases and within new employment generating uses), and additional local expenditure. The new supporting employment land will generate business uses that supports economic growth and jobs, along with the relative sustainability in the rural areas surrounding Northbrook Park. • When this development is complete it will become one of England’s outstanding garden villages. The blueprint for other sites to copy! SUPPORT TO WHITEHILL & BORDON • Excellent site, already under way for 2,400 dwellings, a new town centre, new schools, roads, open space and community/sports/leisure facilities, employment development, supporting infrastructure. • It is a logical further development phase of a new town. • New transport links already in place. • There is scope for the further sustainable expansion to provide additional homes, employment land, and open space/SANGS. It represents logical further phases of development within the HPA area and under pins the re-use and redevelopment and regeneration of the area. • 1,284 homes will be classed as affordable, a significant percentage of the total. • Primary school planned and “state of the art” secondary school to be opened shortly. • Outstanding proposal for a Green Town where quality of life, opportunity and environment will be achieved for both existing and new residents. Equally for those living in older homes as well as those in new homes. • Whitehill & Bordon will show what is possible to create a 100% sustainable community and be an example for other towns and areas needing to grow. OBJECTION TO WEST OF LYMINGTON BOTTOM ROAD, SOUTH MEDSTEAD • The development is neither self-contained nor separate, it is simply more housing “bolted- on” to an existing settlement. • Current pupil availability in existing schools is over committed. The children of the occupants of the 650 houses cannot wait eight years for the 2 form school to be built. When built there will be inadequate capacity for the expected 900 children. • Where will these 900 children receive secondary education? Nothing is proposed in the plan. • No plans for increasing GP surgery capacity. Existing surgery cannot cope with existing population. In September 2019. Medstead/ Lymington Bottom residents have a current 3 weeks wait for an appointment. The additional 900 residents virtually doubles the workload of the current medical facilities. • Traffic volumes created by this development will put over 1,000 extra vehicles onto Lymington Bottom Road, in turn impacting traffic safety on the highway network. This will create severe jams, (especially at rush hour) on the approaches to the single carriage way under the Lymington Bottom Road railway bridge. These idling cars, queuing, will cause great harm to the environment by adding circa 100 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. Especially harmful to children who have to walk along these routes and then wait at bus stops for the school bus to arrive. • In summary this proposal is ill thought out and written to justify building 650 houses. It does not provide the ongoing needs of a potential 1,000 residents. The proposal is un-stainable, undeliverable, un-necessary and unsuitable. OBJECTION TO Land South of Winchester Road Four Marks • It is in direct contravention described in the EHDC Core Strategy. Section CP19 (development in the countryside). The site is located across the boundary between Four Marks and Ropley and is outside the settlement policy boundaries of both M+FM neighbourhood plan and Ropley neighbourhood plan. • It is ugly urbanisation, building ribbon development of the worst type, sprawling out into the countryside, destroying a long established, quiet and peaceful rural community. • The potential for a new roundabout to facilitate access between Grosvenor Road and Gravel Lane would create a rat run for vehicles travelling to Basingstoke/by passing Four Marks. Ensuing safety problems for the Soldridge community together with associated noise and atmospheric pollution. Traffic would need to negotiate a blind S bend to pass under single lane restricted Railway Bridge that will create severe unsighted traffic congestion jams. As there is no pavement pedestrians safety will be critically endangered. • Heavy rainfall, especially in the winter, flows down the entire length of Grosvenor Road, (starting from the intersection of Upper Soldridge Road, north of the bridge, outside the area) creating at times impassable ford at the intersection with A31. • Additionally dangerous nitrates from this area will ultimately flow into the Solent with severe biodiversity consequences. • The views of passengers travelling on the long established rural heritage railway will be destroyed. The Watercress Line as an attraction will lose its appeal. No visitors will patronise a heritage railway that only provides a vista of urban development. • Provision of 15 gypsy and traveller pitches and 15 travelling show people plots would be out of character for this area. It would severely impact the integration and social cohesion of the environment. • In the same way consideration for the allocation of employment land for the erection of workshop/mini factories would be a significant blot on this rural landscape. Panoramic views for the residents of Gravel Lane and visitors wishing to enjoy the countryside would only see industry replacing verdant pastures of Hampshire’s heritage. • Overall the developer’s plan is very sketchy with insufficient infrastructure for the needs of circa 1,000 residents in a major housing estate. Maybe this is because no building contractor is identified, indicating this proposal is speculative. For example they cannot have surveyed access to the employment area in Gravel Lane where their map proposal shows access is from the A31. At present this route is almost unsafe for small private cars. When commercial vehicles and HGV’s attempt this risky manoeuvre; from the high speed derestricted A31 (crossing a central reservation coming from the east) then entering a virtually blind single deep gradient carriageway it makes a nonsense of the developer’s literature that states “Key design considerations for the site include safe access from the A31”. This will mean it will be only a matter of time before an accident happens. • What other flaws have they overlooked in their proposal? OBJECTION TO South Medstead • Proposes to construct un-required housing which significantly exceeds the planned development of 175 units by 2028 (M+FM neighbourhood plan). Recent developments, on- going developments and developments for which planning permission has already been given already exceed the required development by 81%. • The proposed development is outside the settlement policy boundary for Medstead (M+FM neighbourhood plan). Conflicts with EHDC Joint Core Strategy CP19. • The proposed development will diminish the undeveloped “local gap” which exists between Medstead and South-Medstead-Four-Marks the preservation of which is a priority addressed in Policy 2 of M+FM neighbourhood plan. • The development is neither self-contained nor separate but is simply more housing “bolted- on” to an existing settlement. • Although the proposal mentions a “potential” for the development of employment and a school there is no commitment to construct any infrastructure. Four Marks and Medstead are already deficient