IN the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald on April 13 there was an article about the planning application 17/03417/OUT for a distribution centre near junction 17 of the M4.
I would just like to issue a wake-up to anyone unaware of the potential size of this development.
My concern is obvious. This development will be on an unimaginable scale. When you enter Chippenham or if you live nearby this will utterly dominate the rural, gentle, undulating landscape now there. 
I am well aware that development will happen at junction 17 sooner or later. The footprint of this building is equivalent to seven Twickenham rugby pitches, the same size as Terminal 5 Heathrow and with a height greater than the nave of Wells Cathedral, it is 23 acres of building. This is massive.
There is no other development around here anywhere near this size or on this scale.
The B4122 was never built for this volume of traffic, plus the proposed plans for 500 residential dwellings which will all be using the same network of road.
Not too mention the water run-off from such a huge roof area going into the current watercourse potentially causing flooding at Draycot Park. The lake is adjacent to the ancient chapel, and then going into Sutton Benger, where a new development of houses was built on a flood plain.
A development on this scale cannot be allowed to happen.
KEN HAYWARD
Draycot Cerne
Chippenham