LOCALS live in fear their homes will become “Piccadilly Circus” as newbuilds take take over the street.
Fuming residents in Mansfield, Nottingham, have slammed council backed plans to build almost 100 houses in the neighbourhood.
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To ease disruption, Nottinghamshire County Council has requested the developer, Permission Homes, to create a new road.
Albion Street and Mount Street could be joined to become a through-road if plans are approved, to help manage traffic from the 84 newbuilds.
The decision has sparked outrage among homeowners such as Kallum Holness.
She told Nottingham Live : “We got back off holiday recently, we were here at 4am and we couldn’t get a parking spot.
“We ended up having to go further down on double yellow lines and by the time we went to check at 10am, we’d had a ticket.”
“It’s bad enough as it is, so they’re going to have to do something with it if we have this extra traffic,” added the 30-year-old.
“It’s difficult when everyone is coming back from work and there is the school across the road as well.”
Another fed-up local, who has called the area home for nearly 50 years said they’re “not keen” on the plans.
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They said when family visit, it is already “impossible” to find a parking space.
“My daughter was trying to put her baby in the car the other day and it was so hard with the traffic, she was having to let cars pass and drivers were having to wait for each other,” they added.
“The extra traffic would definitely be a problem because of the parking.”
Sue Gregory, who has lived on Albion Street for 23 years said: “I hadn’t actually heard about the plans but it’s a nightmare getting up here sometimes.
“I’m retired now and it’s not as bad in the day, but when I used to come home from work I sometimes couldn’t get parked.”
The retired 66-year-old suggested a parking scheme could help and said she’d be happy to pay to park outside her home.
Martin Quibell, 52, claimed issues will arise with more traffic passing through if a permit scheme isn’t put in place.
He said: “But the traffic itself is already busy here, we moved here at the end of 2021 and even in that time the traffic has grown exponentially.”
It’s bad enough as it is, so they’re going to have to do something with it if we have this extra traffic.”
Kallum Holness
A spokesperson for Persimmon Homes said during a planning meeting: “The highways authority doesn’t want cul-de-sac developments any more.
“It wants connectivity and – by opening up those two points of access and egress – it’s as much of a benefit to existing residents.
“They will have an alternative way of getting into and out of Mansfield without [using] Chesterfield Road.
“If you don’t need to go that way, you can go south onto Broomhill Lane.”
Councillor Ben Brown, Mansfield District Council, stated on social media he does not object to new homes being built.
But, he does believe it will spark a traffic and parking nightmare.
“Many residents on those streets are rightly concerned that this new access road is going to make those problems worse,” he penned.
“I share that view. It’s going to turn both streets into Piccadilly Circus.”
This comes as other residents battle with newbuild nightmares across the UK.
Homeowners in the Oxfordshire town of Didcot say their walls wobble when they lean on them and the estate still needs to be finished.
The unfinished housing estate also brings hours of noise and disruption as diggers continue to plough through the ground.
And, locals living in a posh village say newbuild homes are constantly popping up and they don’t fit in with its landscape.
Meanwhile residents who paid up to £550,000 for their dream homes say their lives are a misery after a promised train station never opened.
Brits in Beam Park, East London, were told a station of the same name would shuttle them to the Thameside line and get them to work.
But more than 13 years later, residents in the Thames Riverside Opportunity Area find themselves trapped and forced to massively alter their lives.
