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Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Development Plan Document (DPD)
GC Policy 7. Movement and Connections
Representation ID: 14
Received: 23/05/2023
Respondent: Mr Timothy Wood
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? No
1) the new link road to the A120 is ESSENTIAL before ANY houses are built, to avoid Clinghoe Hill becoming Colchester’s biggest car park and imprisoning Wivenhoe residents in the village
2) the ‘rapid transit’ is a complete con and will be an ordinary bus, which no one will use.
3) the ‘cycling plans’ ignore that (a) the development is on the top of a big hill and so cycling into Colchester will be fine, but not coming back. It also rains a lot and no one will cycle in the rain.
The whole mad idea should be scrapped! But if it can’t be, the new road and a viable ‘rapid transit system’ (not a ramshackle ex school bus) MUST be provided BEFORE any houses are built.
It is ESSENTIAL that the link road to the A120 is provided BEFORE any houses are built. Otherwise the traffic on Clinghoe Hill, which is already queuing back to before the University junction from 7 am to 10am every day, will be paralysed all day, effectively trapping Wivenhoe residents in the village. Each house built before that road is provided will bring AT LEAST two cars onto the existing roads, which already cannot cope with the traffic.
And please don’t lie to us about the ‘rapid transit system’! We all know that it will be an ordinary bus, probably a ramshackle, smoke-benching ex school bus, crawling slowly up the hill once an hour, if that. No one will use a system like that, especially as the fares are likely to be extortionate. The building of the ‘bus lanes’ for it will take one lane out of Clinghoe Hill, to give access for construction machinery. The road is jammed two lanes solid now! What is taking one lane out each way going to do? I suggest the planning inspector comes to see it at 8.30 am on any week day…..
The proponents of the wonderful cycling schemes have ignored the inconvenient facts that the development will be at the top of a hill, and it rains a lot!
The whole project was based on lies from the start. There never was a plan for a new A120 junction. There never was going to be a ‘high quality rapid transit with services every two or three minutes’. It was all developers’ lies, to get planning permission, and it’s a shame that mug councillors and mug officials fell for it.
