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drainage and sewerage network will take place. If Thames Water deem
it more financially viable to them to use more pump lorries over the
vast cost of new drains & sewers in Ickford, then they will use the
extra lorries – at the expense of the people on the junction of Church
Road and Worminghall Road.
63 Affordable housing has been built twice before during my lifetime
living in the village (35 years). Each time, they have gone to deserved
people who need them. However, they have then sold them at market
price and they are instantly no longer affordable. We then need to
build more for those who need them and the pattern repeats itself. It
is utterly pointless building affordable houses that do not have a fixed
price and selling on means tested criteria attached. There is no housing
crisis for any other type of house. Look on ‘Right Move’, there is supply.
The only need is for affordable housing and the only point of building
them is if they remain affordable. The village does/could support another
few larger houses as family housing is in big demand with the great
school, that combined with affordable will be fine.
64 There is so much water in Ickford that more housing is going to mean
there is even less areas for the water to disperse there will be more road
drainage with nowhere to go. The more that gets concreted over the more
problems we are having. The water doesn’t go away it just gets pushed to
the slightly lower houses with a disastrous outcome. We have, down
Church Road, bowsers to take the water away when it is raining, this is a
temporary fix and they can’t get rid of enough. We cannot understand
what on earth the Council is thinking about considering adding more
concrete and houses in such a vulnerable area.
65 Flooding of drains/roads.
66 Traffic increases. Limited infrastructure to support the growth in
population. Excessive expansion of school on relatively constrained
site. Nothing for teenagers so they ‘hang around’. School access and
choice for secondary school. Medical services.
67 Traffic already bad, especially around school. Two small bridges in
Bridge Road are also a problem already.
68 Pressure on the existing failed sewer systems and river flood levels.
The feeder roads into the village must raise concerns. School
development – How do they propose to improve parking issues. We
must be over capacity NOW!
69 That the infrastructure should support any increase in the population
and the development work may be very disruptive.
70 My concerns: Increased traffic, sewerage/water – this could become
overloaded. Also need to keep a shop in the village especially for older
people.
71 Increased risk of flooding to the lower lying parts of the village and
more traffic.
72 1. The sewerage system won’t cope! Thames Water must be made
to invest in the system so that our toilets/showers work in periods of
wet weather.
2. Surface water drainage. We are very vulnerable to flooding and
more development won’t help.

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