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Below are the sites that we are protesting about.  
HA1 - North and South of Greenaway Lane, Warsash - 700 dwellings
HA3 - Southampton Road, Titchfield Common - 400 dwellings
HA7 - Warsash Maritime Academy, Warsash -100 dwellings
HA9 - Heath Road, Locks Heath- 71 dwellings
HA11- Raley Road, Locks Heath- 49 dwellings
HA13- Hunts Pond Road, Titchfield Common- 38 dwellings
HA14 -Genesis Community Youth Centre, Locks Heath - 35 dwellings
 HA15 -Beacon Bottom West, Park Gate -30 dwellings
HA17 -69 Botley Road, Park Gate -24 dwellings
HA19-  399 – 409 Hunts Pond Road, Titchfield Common- 22 dwellings

Traffic in this area is already at a gridlock during peak hours and since the new Strawberry Fields, Hunts Pond and Coldeast developments it has doubled the time for people to get to work. Improvements on major roads and motorways will try and ease congestion but its not satisfactory as residents will not be able to actually get to these major roads.  Local roads such as Brook Lane, Osborne Road, Warsash Road and Barnes Lane cannot be made wider, they were built to service the traffic and community of small villages and the resulting influx of 3000+ cars in such a small square area will lead to more accidents.  Warsash specifically is on a pensinsular and the only roads in and out are Brook Lane and Warsash Road. Emergency vehicles will be unable to ensure safe response times - during rush hour it is likely they will not have space to get to their destination.  The consequences will be catastrophic. Flooding is inevitable especially with recent climate changes; residents in local back garden developments are already experiencing this. Fareham is presently in trouble for poor air quality due to the amount of rush hour traffic.  Bring another  3000+ cars in to the Western Wards and there will be more cases of asthma, lung disease and related illnesses - all for the surgeries with not enough resources to treat.  Doctors, schools, hospitals and emergency services are already stretched to breaking point.  If the plans go ahead there will be hundreds of children needing school places.  New schools might take pressure off the overcrowded ones - then the influx of new children will put it back on again.  Children walking to Brookfield already face a perilous journey due to the amount of traffic on Brook Lane. Brook Lane, Lockswood, Jubilee and Whiteley surgeries struggle to cope with the amount of patients they have.  They wait an unacceptable amount of time for routine appointments (1 month plus) and often have very long waits when they get to there (30 minutes plus). Emergency appointments are becoming harder to book as there are not enough doctors or time. The very young, elderly and chronically ill are already vulnerable and bearing the brunt of this - add another 1,500 homes and these overstretched surgeries will be at crisis point.  There will be an increased need for care homes, for which there is just no space. Residents' health will be at risk and possibly their lives. Warsash is a place of outstanding natural beauty and home to precious wildlife such as badgers, bats and deer. The greenfield land proposed as the area for development also provides a defined strategic gap from neighbouring villages. Residents have the right to breathe clean air, have facilities, space and sufficient infrastructure and the assurance that emergency vehicles have access and can meet response times in life threatening situations. We genuinely fear for the health and safety of people in the Western Wards.

Started by: Amanda Strand

This ePetition ran from 15/11/2017 to 07/12/2017 and has now finished.

1415 people signed this ePetition.