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To email: planapps@westberks.gov.uk From: ………………………………………………………………… Address: ……………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………… Date: …………………………………………….. Dear Sir/Madam, We strongly object to the proposed development at Sandleford Park, Application No 15/02300/OUTMAJ for the following reasons: 1. The Transport Assessment fails to model the Warren Road Access. 2. The Transport Assessment identifies an unrealistic assignment of development traffic since far more traffic would use the Warren Road access. 3. The Transport Assessment fails to consider the impact of the development on key pedestrian routes around the local schools and churches. 4. The supporting transport information fails to consider the transport environmental impacts of the development on sensitive receptors such as local schools and vulnerable road users, again, particularly associated with the local schools. 5. No work has been undertaken to consider the implications of the proposed Warren Road access on parent drop-off and pick-up at nearby schools, the accommodation of the access into the church hall car park opposite and the implications of the lay-by on the opposite side of the road. 6. By linking Sandleford with the Andover Road, it will effectively link the 3 schools (Falkland Primary, Park House Secondary and the new Sandleford West Primary School). This has not been modelled for traffic impact. 7. It is seen as particularly important that the access route via the A339 is constructed immediately and used to allow HGV traffic access to the site. The development will last more than a decade and, for Health & Safety reasons it is suggested that, due to this option being available, HGVs should be kept away from the surrounding residential areas, particularly the schools wherever possible. In addition, this junction should incorporate the Recycling Centre and a roundabout to prevent unnecessary road journeys, thus reducing congestion at the surrounding roundabouts and allowing traffic to flow in both directions from this access. This may also encourage a reduction of traffic destined for Andover Road. According to the Environment Statement Para 17.9, a haul route will be required to be laid out through the site to enable construction traffic access to Development Parcel West 1. However, there is also a proposal for no more than 15 HGVs an hour to use the Warren Road access. A clear construction traffic route needs to be planned, taking into account the external alterations (road alterations, Park House School, Doctor’s Surgery etc) which will be required and the proximity to heavily pedestrianised areas. 8. A southern link road built alongside the Sandleford Development would support traffic heading towards the A34, without the need for it to pass the schools. It would also support the future building of plots NEW019, NEW 108 and any other future building. If it cannot be incorporated into the existing plan, it should be incorporated into the new Local Plan to relieve the volume of traffic from the Andover Road, which is an old road not designed for modern traffic quotas. If the western section of Sandleford was to be built when the bridge linking the 2 sites of Sandleford was available, it would allow time for a southern link road to be constructed, thus eliminating the need for the Warren Road Access. 9. There have been 3 reported accidents (involving 1 or more individuals) on the Andover Road directly in front of the schools since 2012 and a fatality in 2000 in the vicinity of the Kendrick Road/Andover Road junction (also close to the schools). The schools sited just off Monks Lane and on the Andover Road, on completion of the Sandleford Development, will total just under 3000 pupils, with an additional 3000 students attending Newbury College. Taking this into account and the vulnerability of child pedestrians, this area is not able to cope with additional traffic, especially the 1200 vehicle movements per peak hour predicted to come from the Sandleford Development (as estimated by a Transport Consultant). I OBJECT TO THE WARREN ROAD ACCESS.