Sir, – I write this letter in utter amazement. We have just received in the mail today (April 12) a letter from Waverley council notifying us of yet another planning proposal for the Wrecclesham road. The same people who got through planning the 23 houses near the river, which are currently being built by Gleeson after they won the appeal, on a site which used to have just one dwelling on it, are proposing to build 61 dwellings and 660 sqm of class B1 business space on the opposite side of the road. This land sits directly opposite our row of Victorian terraced houses. It will demolish an English Heritage special protection area which has bats and newts to name but a few inhabitants. It will block out the natural light which we have at the front of our houses and it has the potential to supply us with at least another 120 cars going up and down a road which can't cope with the current traffic. The Wrecclesham village is supposed to be a conservation area but judging by the number of new houses which are being built all over the road, I think that conservation is the wrong title. In 2002, Mouchel carried out a corridor study of the A325 which was supposed to take into account the residents views and we had lots of "talking shop" meetings and studies, etc. This in my opinion was a complete waste of money and time as only one of the measures was actually carried out, this being a bridge warning system to stop any more HGVs crashing into the bridge. (Which I hasten to add does not do its job.) We still have no-safe-route-to-school scheme in place, no pedestrian crossing for school children and other pedestrians trying to cross the road at the Coxbridge roundabout to walk into Farnham. We still have no traffic-calming scheme and we certainly do not have a Wrecclesham relief road! The Wrecclesham road is being set upon, it seems, like many other places in the Farnham area, by developers who seem to be able to do whatever they please on whatever land they please without any concern for the surrounding area or current residents. They certainly do not care about the major traffic problem that we already have. The Wrecclesham Road is a 30 mph limit; every vehicle travels at at least 50 mph. No more houses should be built in Wrecclesham until there is a traffic-calming scheme and or a relief road, otherwise we are very close to gridlocking Farnham. I really hope that this development is not given the go-ahead and I hope that as many people as possible object to it. Name and address supplied
