Representation by Simon Gibbons
- Date submitted
- 17 June 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The already significant warehouse and road and rail freight expantion in the local area. Over the past 20 years there has been massive expantion of warehousing and feight transport in the local area. This has been at the expense of many hectares of farmland, woodland and hedgerows. Either side of Hinckley town green belt corridor land has been developed for industrial estates and further housing to support the increased workforce for those facilities. Almost all green space has now been developed between Hinckley and Nuneaton and what was built as a bypass industrial estate relief road is now seeing factory and housing estates built outside of it turning the relief road into a housing estate acess road. Long the A5 corridor south from Hinckley to Lutterworth and beyond the Magna Park warehousing complex is constantly expanding with the lose of productive farmland. A just a few miles further south along the A5 outside of Rugby the moajor rail freight terminal has also taken vast amounts of country side and farmland. All of these recent developments have had a major impact of road traffic in the surrounding areas. I do not see the need to build yet another rail/road warehouse facility so close to the existing and still expanding current industrial estates mentioned above. Burbage Common is an important green space in the Hinckley borough and would be significantly and permanently impacted by this rail terminal. The proposed development will disect already diminished green corridors for wildlife habitats and more loss of local farmland.