Taylor Wimpey has unveiled its plans for a housing development on the Bibby Scientific site in Walton.
The housebuilder was given outline planning permission last year for up to 244 homes, and its more detailed plans were put to the public at an exhibition at Walton Community Centre on Monday. If you didn’t make it, all the details are now on the Taylor Wimpey website HERE
Here are the key facts:
- Approximately 215 new homes in total
- Approximately 58 affordable properties, in accordance with council standards and existing outline planning permission
- A mix of 2, 3, 4 and 5-bedroom properties
- Vehicle access from Stafford Road
- Limited vehicle access from Tilling Drive to cul-de-sac of nine plots only
- Landscaping and public open space including pedestrian linkages to Tilling Drive and Brooms Road
The vehicle access on to the A34 is causing some concern.
Richard Stevens says: “If this gets permission then the Walton island is going to be gridlocked. Over 200 houses each with two parking spaces accessed only from the northbound A34. Put another way, any of the occupants wishing to drive south to Stafford, Rugeley etc will have to turn left on to the A34, drive to Walton roundabout to turn back down the A34 to their destination! Add into the mix the hundreds more vehicles coming down Eccleshall Road from the new 500-home development there and Walton’s got a major problem.”
It says on the Taylor Wimpey website: “This layout is not final and certain elements could be changed in our planning application, depending on the comments we receive during this public consultation and future discussions with the local authority. We welcome your comments on the suggested layout. Your feedback will be used to help us progress our designs as we finalise our planning application.”
Make sure you have your say – go to the Taylor Wimpey website HERE, have a look at the information and click the red ‘Have Your Say’ box.
6 comments
Wut
I wonder where all these ‘new’ people will find work? Bizarre.
Stone Bloke
Have Taylor Wimpey done an assessment to see if the local infrastructure can cope with this development. Will the local sewerage works be able to cope? Hundreds of houses are a bigger strain on local services than 1 factory.
The broadband speeds in Walton are already very slow because we are so far from the exchange next to the railway station, how will it cope with several hundred houses all wanting broadband and telephone services.
The residents of the Little Stoke area suffered ‘brown outs’ when Aston Lodge was built because local power supplies couldn’t cope with the extra demand. Will the lights go out in Walton?
Access to the site is via a new junction on the A34, I thought the original plans involved access being via the Aldi traffic lights. The new plans show no acceleration/deceleration lane so you will have cars pulling out into fast moving traffic. We have all seen/heard about the horrendous accidents at the Whitemill Lane junction on the A34. Accidents will now be a more regular occurrence especially with cars pulling out of the junction quickly then have to brake sharply for the traffic lights.
The A34 is a slow crawl most evenings between Aston and Walton roundabout especially when people are avoiding the closed M6. This development will create more traffic as access is only via the northbound carriageway, so cars coming from the north will have to go to Aston roundabout and then double back adding to the already queuing traffic.
How are emergency services going to access the site, the fire station/ambulance dispersal point is north of the development meaning they too will have to drive past the estate to double back at Aston roundabout, adding vital minutes to response times.
Getting an appointment at the local doctors is a joke at the moment, what will it be like when this and the development on Eccleshall Rd is complete. There is no doctors surgery in Walton, yet Walton is where all the developments are happening.
I just think Walton cannot support this development , and strongly believe it is the wrong development in the wrong place.
richard
Why is it people automatically assume there will be 400+ cars on the road at the same time. Its not like people leave to go to work and come home at the same time each day and night. Perhaps a better access arrangement would be better had through the bussiness park for those heading south would be better.
pete
They assume it because it will probably be true. Have you seen the roads around Stone at school run times?
Eric
You can not honestly believe that everybody in that new estate would leave their houses at exactly the same time….. that is absurd
Jack Taylor
Pete, Stone isn’t the only town that has that problem! Every town has that problem!