Local Conservatives angry that Coventry City Council propose housing on Hungerley Hall Farm

Coventry City Council includes Hungerley Hall Farm (land back of the University Hospital) in its local plan for a new housing estate

Your local Conservatives: Michelle Lowe and Myooran Srikantha are furious that Labour Coventry have proposed this precious and totally inappropriate greenbelt land for housing.

“Apart from the fact this land should be protected as it is greenbelt,” explained Michelle Lowe. “It is also the home to many wild animals including kingfishers, newts, otters and badgers and is a well know flood plain.

“We simply do not want to see the sorts of images we all saw last winter of homes and streets totally flooded out in Coventry.”

Myooran Srikantha added: “The traffic around the hospital is bad enough without adding more to it with a housing development.

“There is simply not enough joined up thinking going on at the council. There are not enough school places in Wyken and a new housing development here will add to more pressure on schools and more traffic gridlock. The idea is a disaster.”

Reasons your local Conservative Action Team oppose this land for housing:

1 It is greenbelt land and the City Council should be identifying more sustainable brown field sites in its local plan. Once greenbelt land has gone—it is gone for ever.

2 Hungerley Hall Farm is a floodplain. Building here could bring misery to new residents and increase risk to existing residents by removing the land that currently soaks up the excess water.

3 It will put too much pressure on local roads and schools