Comment

Representation ID: 7240

Received: 11/03/2021

Respondent: R W Chapman

I wish to make the following comment on the various proposals for building new houses in Harden.
There are four sites designated for housing, labelled HR1/H, HR2/H, HR3/H and HR4/HC. Three of these (HR2, 3 and 4) total 49 planned additional houses which would all need to have entrance/exit access onto Long Lane. It seems very likely that 49 households in Harden would each have at least one car and thus would inevitably increase traffic and subsequent congestion on Long Lane which is the main road and already the most congested road in Harden. Owing to parking of cars outside the houses on Long Lane, the road is often reduced to a single lane with traffic waiting top and bottom to take turns using it. There is nowhere else nearby for the residents of Long Lane to park, and the problem is unlikely to go away. I imagine that increasing the traffic on Long Lane could only make it worse.