Leicestershire Parish Councils

Draft East Midlands Regional Plan
Plans for 8,500 new homes

Comments received from local residents

* I object to the new proposed site/area for yet more houses. This area is heavily polluted already and more and more children/adults getting asthma. Leicester is the worst place for asthmatics.Here in Braunstone we have the M1 our door steps further traffic not needed - there is more adequate sites on the east of Leicestershire to plan this new development . this is the only green belt in this area to get away from traffic - if you take this away then there will be no quiet walking areas and no mother nature to show our children/grandchildren. Praying that this build does not go ahead.

* We need to keep that particular green space - it is a tranquil farming area

* I back on to Lubbesthorpe Brook, it is already full after steady rainfall; that is being shed more rapidly from current housing and industrial estates.

* Where are these people going to work and are you trying to kill our children with pollution

* I object to the housing area. The Highways proposals appear to have received little more than a cursory glance by the Highways department. Presumably all of their effort and money has gone into producing the M1 "improvement proposals".
Link 1 would appear to be the route expected to carry the bulk of the traffic. If it is assumed that 8500 homes would involve a minimum of 17000 cars (Check Thorpe Astley and see how many homes dont have 2 cars) and that 1 car from each house and 60% of the second cars will be used to commute to work (Check Thorpe Astley during the day), that will add 13600 cars during the morning and evening commutes. If link 1 carries only 60% of that traffic then 8160 cars will use the junction onto a road which is currently very noisy, runs behind two schools who will be the first recipients of the pollution and which in one direction is limited to a single carriageway. The knock on impacts as the traffic tries to join the motorway or Everard Island are too horrible to contemplate. Assuming that Links 3 and 2 respectively carry 25% and 15% of the cars, Link 2 will deposit 2040 cars per commute into the heart of another residential area effectively isolating the local shops from half of their catchment area and bringing noise and pollution to the heart of a residential area. Link 3 seems to have been designed ease traffic pressure on the busy B582 / A47 Desford Crossroads junction and seeks to deposit an additional 3400 cars twice a day onto the A47. If the congestion currently occuring at Desford Crossroads is supplemented by an additional 3400 cars at peak times it is difficult to see how this is doing more than fiddling at the edges and relocating and exacerbating a problem.
In summary it seems that this scheme has been imposed by an indirectly elected body the majority of whose members have no connection with the area.
A plan which involves us accommodating our fair share of any new housing and which has been carefully thought out and has the support of the local infrastructure should and would be be supported, this is not NIMBYism but a call for the infrastructure to be put in place first. Schools, Health Care and other local amenities are all required by such a development and the track record demonstrated by Thorpe Astley will not allow us to trust that these facilities will be provided in the future there is too much pain in providing infrastructure after the event. Fund it and build it first, plan for a phased occupation to match the build program and then build the housing. Radical, but much more likely to attract support than the usual "Jam Tomorrow" approach.

* Thorpe Astley is very badly organised over Doctors, School, community centre - don't want any more to add to the problem.

* I object to the housing area - Mr V THorpe Astley

* I object to the housing area
does this mean we can call ourselves townies now?
power and money dictates the environment!

* I feel that new housing should not be built on high quality countryside which will be lost forever

1. Too much development for the already over developed area
2. Loss of green wedge
3. Increased traffic and pollution
4. Loss of greenfield area in an area which has already seen a massive loss of green land

* I object to the housing area - before you start building more houses maybe youshould build some services for the houses you are building now (thorpe astley). it would also be nice to have a little bit of countryside left to enjoy.

* I object on grounds of loss of open space, countryside and farmland

* I object to the housing area

* I object to the propose scheme for a number of reasons.
1. The area around junction 21 is already over developed. More development will mean an increase in cars, noise and pollution.
2. This in turn will result in a reduction in the quality of life for the residents of Braunstone, L. F.E and Thorpe Astley.
3. More houses will mean more cars wanting to use Fosse Park, Junction 21 and the Narborough Road South causing more congestion around that area.
4. The area is already earmarked for disruption for the M1/69 link. More disruption would mean more dust, dirt, lorries etc. over a long period of time.
5. Any uprading of Beggars Lane would be strongly opposed by local residents as speeding traffic is already a problem.
6. the A47 would not support any increase in traffic flow especially at peak times.