Comment

Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035

Representation ID: 1874

Received: 07/02/2019

Respondent: Mrs Joanna King

Representation Summary:

1250 houses in Southbourne allocation need to consider:
- Pollution issues with the location of railway road bridge in relation to housing
- Sufficient footpath provision for walking to school safely
- Railway crossing at Inlands Road already too narrow
- Congestion at Stein Road railway crossing
- Pollution from traffic will increase the affect of respiratory conditions
- Consider the natural environment for wildlife

Full text:

As you know between now and 2035 there are 1250 houses due to be built in and around Southbourne. All these dwellings are due to be built north of the railway line. There is also a railway road bridge due to be built too. I can't see where this can be built. If it's built over housing there will be pollution which will affect people with lung conditions. Behind the Bourne Community College there are a myriad of public footpath's that many dog walkers and schoolchildren use to walk to and from school. Currently children are able to walk from Westbourne and Emsworth to Bourne Community College. That these footpath's it will be dangerous for them to walk the road or they would have to go by car. How are they going to be accommodated? Do you want more parents picking children up from school in their cars or do you want them to walk home in a more environmentally friendly way?
What about Inlands Road? At the moment it has an electric railway crossing and the road is very narrow with no white markings. If houses are due to be built that side of the railway then the road is going to have to be widened and a proper railway crossing built.
Also the railway crossing at Stein Road will get more and more congested. As it is, at busier times the traffic builds back as far as the roundabout at St John's church. The pollution from traffic is dreadful and again people with bronchial conditions suffer.
What about the natural environment for wildlife and birds. There are foxes badges and rabbits living in the local hedgerows not to mention a variety of birds. Where are they going to live? Where are they going to build their nests?

I appreciate these houses have to be built but nobody seems to have considered the above. They have just seem to have found land that they think they can build on without thinking of the consequences.