Plans for a new Aldi in Horndean have left some locals worried about how the supermarket will affect traffic, flooding and an aquifer - concerns shared by experts.
Campaigners in the village near Waterlooville said their concerns over the budget supermarket chain’s plans over increased traffic congestion, flooding and drinking water pollution are the same as Hampshire Highways, the fire service and the Environment Agency.
Residents of Havant Road and the wider village formed a WhatsApp group to aid their campaign against the building of Aldi £7million supermarket in their village of Horndean on land owned by Keydell Nurseries. They contacted the Local Democracy Reporting Service to have their say.
Campaigners in the village near Waterlooville said their concerns over the budget supermarket chain’s plans over increased traffic congestion, flooding and drinking water pollution are the same as Hampshire Highways, the fire service and the Environment Agency.
Residents of Havant Road and the wider village formed a WhatsApp group to aid their campaign against the building of Aldi £7million supermarket in their village of Horndean on land owned by Keydell Nurseries. They contacted the Local Democracy Reporting Service to have their say.
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00:00To have a large sort of national supermarket be proposed opposite two 1810 cottages was quite
00:10shocking. We sort of couldn't quite believe it was going to happen and then when we did attend
00:15the parish council meetings and found that we attended the consultation process and it felt
00:23very much like we were not being listened to at all as a community. That was also quite shocking,
00:29that consultation process it felt like it had already been decided, which again was quite a shock.
00:38We understand that people need local supermarkets, we haven't got anything against local supermarkets,
00:44we totally understand that, but there's a right place for them and the amount of traffic
00:48and the deliveries that this is going to entail on a village road seems completely inappropriate.
00:56There are numerous concerns but primarily it's the traffic, it's going to be the extra traffic
01:01for building the building in the first place. Our roads aren't widen, our pavements aren't wide enough
01:06for us to walk down safely as it is. With the proposed site they're not prepared to put in a pedestrian
01:15crossing because they feel it's the road, there's a very busy road is safe for pedestrians to cross.
01:19They're saying that most of the footfall will be by a bus, which at the moment needs one an hour.
01:26You're going to have headlights that are going to be streaming into the neighbours' front windows.
01:34They want to do four deliveries a day which is from half past six to half past ten at night.
01:40The area is a flood plain. We have flooding in Haven Road already, which isn't being dealt with by Hampton County Council.
01:50It's officially a flood risk. It's already a flood risk. Four houses at the end have already been flooded
01:55five times in eleven years. They want to put an aquafil in, which means that the water will be collected underground
02:05but then any access will be released into the ditch, which is our drinking water for this whole area.
02:12So that means that any runoff from roofs, any plastic, any petrol from the car park or any spillages from vehicles
02:21will go into the water and then into the aquafil, which will then in turn go into the ditch.
02:27We've had opposals from objections from the Fire Authority, the Environment Agency, Hampshire Highways and Portsmouth Water.
02:40The Fire Authority are concerned that if there's an incident, because sometimes you don't just use water for an incident,
02:46you can use other chemicals like foam, they can't guarantee that that will not go into the ditch.
02:51To the ditch.
02:55SH shame theulators.
02:56SH shame the