Comment

Representation ID: 769

Received: 27/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Amanda Barnes

How will roads cope, how can roads be improved to access Junction4? Roads cannot be widened without significant impact. This has been investigated through other developments and has always been the problem to expansion (e.g HVSC). Roads around Capstone/Hempstead are rural in nature any widening will create a significant negative impact on the character of the area. The expansion of these areas for housing cannot be achieved without better roads, but better roads cannot be achieved without disastrous impacts. Maidstone acknowledged this with proposed 'new arm' of Junction4 through the AONB and associated significant negative impacts on wildlife/character etc.