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[email protected] Kennet District Group E/2011/1139/OUT Care Village on greenfield land alongside Quakers Walk We strongly support the objections expressed by Devizes Town Council and Roundway Parish Council to the development of a care village on the remaining field to the east of of Quakers Walk, south of the new housing development and north of the allotments. Sustainability The proposed built development would bring to the north-east corner of Devizes an unsustainable extra burden of resident population. Though the residents in the 80-bed care home would probably not be mobile, the 129+ residents in the apartments and cottages would generate movements themselves, and visitors to the whole new community would generate increased traffic. That would predictably worsen the congestion on London Road and the main through-routes, and increase the already illegal pollution levels around the town.. The development would cover for ever an area of agricultural land which, together with the adjoining much-valued Quakers Walk, should preferably be protected as a Special Green Space for Devizes, in accordance with the forthcoming NPPF guidelines, para.130. Relevant Plans and the Status of the Land In the first sentence of Part 1 and elsewhere (eg Pt 2 para.. 2.2) The Design and Access Statement describes the application site as a “development site”. Use of that expression is misleading. Following the Inspector’s decisions on the draft Kennet Local Plan (see his Report para. 2.236 and 2.244c) the application site is “unallocated land”.