Bishops Ramsey Planning Application
There are three planning applications which currently affect the school :
Bishops Ramsey Lower School 19731/APP/2006/1442
Bishops Ramsey Upper School 19731/APP/2006/1436
Revised Planning Application, not yet on the LBH web site
The current plans are to be reported on to our North Area Planning Committee meeting on 8th August at the Civic Centre.
A number of local residents have contacted the Assocation expressing their concerns.
Their objections to the proposal can be summarised (in their own words) as:
Traffic Related
1) All school traffic (pedestrian & motor) concentrated on one – Upper School - site. Placing further pressure on already stretched local infrastructure.
2) The already busy Eastcote Rd gets even busier-
A much busier junction at Hume Way (Highgrove Swimming Pool) and
A brand new junction at the lower school site further slowing the traffic flow.
3) Even more traffic will start to use Evelyn Avenue & Park Avenue as ‘rat runs’ to avoid Eastcote Rd.4) The school’s traffic report was based on a sample of only one day (too small), seemed selective in what it reported (ignoring known Upper School issues) & summarised that traffic was going to be bad but offered no solutions just said a single site wouldn’t make it any worse. So much for the interests of the local community.
Overdevelopment
1) Is the Upper School site big enough for over 1200 pupils? It has only 1 games field and needs small parcels of land to be added. Is this because it is only just big enough? Will more of Warrender Park (public land) be ‘needed’ later on?
2) Ruislip is already crowded. First the Lime Grove development, then the Lower School Site put more traffic & people into the system. This puts additional pressure on the infrastructure.
3) Parking is already an issue at the Upper School site. Restricted parking spaces in the proposed Lower School site development will lead to secondary parking on Eastcote Rd – linking to 3) above.
4) Combine the overdevelopment & traffic and you make Ruislip a less safe place to live.
5) How does the local community gain from the development? More people using the same infrastructure? 50% or more of the school population are non-local and therefore part of the traffic problem? No more sports facilities – if anything slightly less green spaces?
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