The ingress and exit road onto Meads on the proposed preferred option of
Spindlewood Drive, Little Common development (160 homes) seems to have been
designed for a small residential area with limited driver use. The proposed estate
being built at the end of the drive will increase the size and number of cars at least
fourfold. With that much increased car use accessing and leaving Spindlewood and
feeding into Meads Road, itself narrow and used for on-road parking, there will be an
increased risk of accidents and frustration by those having to get to work, school and
appointments.
The new homeowners will use Maple Walk or any other designated 'road' to access
Cooden Drive. Maple Walk is narrow with a current speed limit of 20mph and also
used by older residents fit enough to walk into the village and who currently need to
use car driveways to let cars past. Besides being a private road, one of several.
The plan appears not to have a new exit road at this time only pointing out the
possibility of one in the future, although there appears to be a footpath.
I feel this will be a problem for the immediate residents on Spindlewood and Meads
which does not seem to have been fully acknowledged in the plan and also for the
surrounding area where it is the residents who have to pay to have the roads
repaired or improved.