REFERENCE the proposed development of 300 houses on land in Berkeley.
I feel strongly that a development of such a vast size would deeply unroot the close community we have in the town. I am a local business owner and could possibly see extra income from this development but am still opposed to it.
The residents living in these properties would be those who were working in Bristol or Gloucester as we have very little or no scope for new jobs or businesses in the area.
Having looked at the proposed developers' web site I see little or no affordable houses for the younger people already living in the town renting or living at home.
I am also concerned about the following points;
- Traffic congestion, already a nightmare on a morning and evening. Berkeley already has a very small amount of parking in the town - - Doctor's surgery is already stretched, very difficult to get an appointment as it is - - Berkeley Primary School is almost at its limit and we feel that any more children would spoil the closeness of a small community school increasing it by at least three class sizes, would be the result of 300 houses. I have two teenagers wanting things to do but stay at home. The town already has its unruly element on the Town Hall bench because there is nothing for them to do. This would increase, along with crime and damage unless leisure facilities are included to accommodate our youth and I doubt that would be in any plan. - - Very little or no police in the town. - - The proposed development is on a known flood plain and classed as a green field site, surely there are more areas suitable for this size of development. My husband is from Berkeley originally and we spent a long time looking for the right property in Berkeley after returning to the town from Dursley.
We are very proud of Berkeley and its residents and recommend that this plan be put where it deserves, in the ground with the rest of the waste on the proposed land.
I ask all residents of Berkeley to support ABRAID (Association of Berkeley Residents Against Insensitive Development) in its work in preserving Berkeley as the attractive and beautiful town that it is, and I hope will remain.
Mr and and Mrs Greenaway Stoke Lane Berkeley
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