1. The Technical Note supplied to report on the likely effects of developments south of Barnhorn Road were done in 2015. This was before the Link road was opened and therefore bares no relevance to today's traffic. The effect of the link road has been to dramatically increase the traffic using Barnhorn Road. (And hence all surrounding roads).

The report states that the SATURN modelling has taken into account the opening of the link road but this is clearly not the case as the only true test for modelling, as any scientist will tell you, is to view the actual situation which we can now observe. Talk to anyone who must come into Little Common at peak time from the west, they often join the queue at Northeye or sometimes at the bottom of the hill on the marsh road. That does not tally with your reported (modelled) traffic. This is all before any building has taken place at Barnhorn Green or Northeye or Spindlewood.

Point 4.9 of the report states that "The Barnhorn Road arm is predicted to be overcapacity for both weekday AM and PM peak hours in both with the proposed development and without proposed development scenario but that "through mitigation such as minor carriageway widening could easily be mitigated to a nil detriment scenario". I would like to know where and how such a carriageway widening would occur as I cannot see anywhere on this road or more importantly at the junction of Barnhorn Road and the Little Common roundabout where this is possible. If it is possible this should be instigated NOW, before any additional housing is built, so that evidence of such mitigation is proven in traffic numbers.

All of the above increase in traffic will cause anyone coming from the proposed Spindlewood estate (and all the existing traffic locally) to use alternative routes, many of which are not suitable or safe for increased traffic flow, these routes include Maple Walk (Single carriageway in places and unadopted) Maple Avenue (Unadopted), Birkdale - already gridlocked at peak times due to school children delivery and already an accident waiting to happen, Herbrand Walk - single carriageway in places.

Page 7 of the report states that likely access point for Spindlewood needs to be from Barnhorn Road, the fact that now it is proposed to be from Spindlewood Drive would lead me to believe that the planners intention is to drive local traffic onto the alternative routes. This is unfair on local rates payers and unsafe to all local people.

a) I propose that a new traffic census needs to be undertaken now post the opening of the link road to provide true base line figures not "modelled" estimates.

b) Access to the planned site at Spindlewood if built, must be from Barnhorn Road for the safety of road users in the Meads Road & Little Common area. It is clear that it is the intension of RDC to allow further housing developments west of the proposed Spindlewood site in the future so the mitigating minor carriageway proposal for Barnhorn road can surely accommodate this extra traffic?

c) Any mitigation of current excessive traffic such as minor carriageway widening to the A259 must be implemented now in order to prove its effectiveness before more housing is built.

2. The Ecological Appraisal: In point 3.1.2 it states that the nearest SSSI & RAMSAR site is located approximately 160m to the west of the site. (Actually SW.) Point 4.3.2 states that The nearest unit of the SPA/Ramsar/SSSI to the site is located approximately 375m east of the site, and approximately 485m east of the proposed development footprint. This would place it somewhere east of Little Common? If this is a cut and paste from another report it does not bode well for the surety of the report in total?

The proposed site layout plan does not include any of the siting for SUDS scheme. Point 4.4.8 sub 4 states that a water from hard surface runoff will be directed to catch pits and then on to swales which then in turn directs water to flow to regulation/ecological wetland/pond areas that will hold the 1 in 100 yr plus climate change storm events and provide the final treatment before discharging to the local watercourse in a controlled manner at greenfield runoff rates. I presume into The Cole Stream which runs directly into the RAMSAR site?

Please can you tell me what holding capacity this final wetland/pond will be and will it be empty in order to receive the 1 in 100 yr storm event if it happened and where it will be sited?

Will this SUDS scheme be sited within the planning outline as currently there does not seem to be any space for it? The report states that runoff water will be collected and channelled into the SUDS system within the Environmental Mitigation Area. Is this the same area on the site layout plan called "area of enhancement and mitigation?" if so then more than half the planned site will not be covered by these SUDS scheme as the eastern half of the planned area it is up to 5m lower than the area of enhancement and mitigation ? Please explain how the water will flow uphill? Please can we have answers to these questions and a plan showing where the SUDS scheme will be sited.