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Representation ID: 9533

Received: 11/07/2022

Respondent: Leigh Marmon

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This email is to OBJECT very strongly against the 2040 proposed plan to extend not Wixams West of A6 but extend Wilstead parish by a significant factor over the existing Wilstead homestead.
Wilstead is a village, Wixams is a hobbled together housing estate.
The reasons are outlined below:
1. Massive increase of cars number of dwellings X 2 cars as a minimum will increase pollution, noise, traffic build up before A421 roundabout that is already a bottleneck.
2. The land currently has a great population of deer and hares, amongst other wildlife such as flocks of Fieldfares in Spring time, all these are impacted with removal of habitat and replaced with paved roads housing etc.
3. The infrastructure is already stretched with local supermarkets with bare shelves are common now so introducing thousands of extra people will stretch local amenities, parking too as Wixams planning in their wisdom thought to allow 1.5 cars per household, hence the mess with cars parked on pavements being the norm.How this was derived at is something that needs consideration in any development.
4. The risk is high to ruin the village life in Wilstead, no sufficient parking, narrow road past post office the traffic is a problem, new housing will only add to the issues now.
5. There is a risk that Wilstead will eventually be consumed and Wilstead will be renamed Wixams, based on the fact the village has a history of name changes and if the new houses dwarfs as it will, then the village will he seen as one mass housing density.
6. A more appropriate housing density and no encroachment near Duck End Lane, a number of 500 houses would be more in keeping with the environment, surely it's not in anybodies interest to merge Shortstown, Wixams, Elstow and Wilstead in to a mass housing estate, not sure why planning think thousands of houses are necessary, semi rural life is why people have brought houses in a village, slowly with other add ons the village life is being killed by the planning department, what the motive for this is not understood.