Hoo Development Framework
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New searchThe Hoo Peninsular is a group of small villages which under this proposal would become a mass urban sprawl. Hoo St Werburgh will become a small town taking away the character. People choose this area due to not wanting to live in a built up area and the pollution that comes with the increasing amount of traffic.
2: Accessible and well-connected settlements. The proposals show foot and cycle paths linking the different areas of proposed Garden Village. It is ideology to assume that people will use these routes in preference to jumping in the car to get from A-B quicker. 3: Vibrant and sustainable communities . Villages are just that, small communities where people who choose to live in them accept that the facilities are not that of a town.
The framework opens up opportunities in the future to link the outlying villages with Hoo St Werburgh due to the open spaces surrounding each village, the green buffer zones need to be bigger to prevent this. The proposed railway station will not be of use to villagers who want to travel within the medway towns. By removing the Medway curve you are defeating the object of encouraging a reduction in car use. Nobody is going to travel to travel by train if they want to go to Strood, a 10 min journey by car but probably an hour if you go via Gravesend by train. The line to Strood would allow travel further afield and access to the High Speed trains to London. Instead of the station a dedicated shuttle bus to Strood Station would allow access to the whole rail network at a fraction of the cost.
By splitting Hoo St Werburgh into three neighbourhoods you taking away the village aspect and destroying the character, it encourages segregation rather than inclusion..
The proposed road network will not alleviate the traffic problems that the Peninsular suffers on a daily basis. The addition of circa 24,000 cars, allowing 2 per household plus increased HGV movement from the new industrial area using the roads particularly at peak times will result in the same problems as we suffer now. A majority of the new inhabitants will work outside of the Peninsular. The pollution levels around Four Elms roundabout / hill are already well above legal limits which have not been addressed by the council to date, will only increase . This is detrimental to the health of the residents and puts a strain on the NHS. I feel that he proposed relief road incorporating the army road will become an overnight parking place for lorries.
