The pretty UK town overrun with 3,800 new houses but locals fume 'where do we all go?'

House gathering has boomed astir Stratford successful the past fewer years (Image: Rowan Griffiths )

Worried residents accidental a beauteous English tourer municipality is not providing the infrastructure to enactment a grounds roar successful location gathering implicit the past 3 years. 

Stratford-upon-Avon, successful Warwickshire, has a desirable centre with historical buildings that attracts visitors from each implicit the satellite coming to spot the birthplace of William Shakespeare. 

With the River Avon flowing done the municipality and charming Tudor buildings, arsenic good arsenic the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, it's casual to spot wherefore galore radical whitethorn take to crook a sojourn into a longer stay. 

But according to a study this twelvemonth from property tract 24Housing successful and astir Stratford-upon-Avon a full of 3,860 houses were built successful the territory betwixt 2020 and 2023, the astir homes built anyplace successful the state successful narration to the section population. 

Some residents person told Express.co.uk they fearfulness the detonation successful location gathering for a municipality of conscionable implicit 30,000 radical is not being supported with an enlargement successful capactity for roads, schools and aesculapian services. 

Stratford locals Isabelle Humphreys, 91, and Josephine Fairey, 87. (Image: Rowan Griffiths )

Former guesthouse proprietor Isabelle Humphreys, 91, has lived successful the municipality for astir 4 decades and said services were not what they erstwhile were. 

She told Express.co.uk: “There’s not the infrastructure (for caller housing), it’s GP services, schools, it’s everything really, the section colonisation indispensable person doubled due to the fact that things are truthful different.

“You can’t spell backwards though, you’ve got to spell forwards but it does irritate maine erstwhile they accidental we person an aging population, for God’s involvement it’s communal sense, radical aren’t going to get younger are they.

“I mightiness not person a degree, but the Government don’t person a penneth of communal sense.”

Ms Humphreys' person Josephine Fairey, 87, added that a section autobus work had been stopped which “a batch of radical connected my small property with aged radical had recovered a large problem”.

But Ms Fairey continued: “The assembly person to chopped something, they can’t wage for everything tin they."

Pizza resturant proprietor Christian Porzio said Stratford had go an charismatic spot to unrecorded (Image: Rown Griffiths )

Mum Sheryl Stevens said: “Our GP tin beryllium a spot of a ngo to get astatine the moment, I deliberation with the houses that are coming on we could person much infrastructure, particularly with hospitals and doctors, and schools.

“My girl goes to the precocious school, and we were conscionable saying they’ve gone from 300 students to astir treble successful 1 twelvemonth group. They are having extensions enactment connected the schoolhouse to assistance header with the numbers.

“But determination are lone a fistful of superior schools and a fistful of secondary schools and the precocious schoolhouse is the main 1 you don’t request the 11 positive exam to get in.

“I bash consciousness similar we bash request immoderate much services successful the area, definite treatments you person to spell to Coventry oregon Warwick for."

But Christian Porzio, 31, who runs the Corte Campana pizza restuarant successful the town, said helium believed Stratford was a precise charismatic spot to unrecorded particularly for young families. 

Stratford is inactive a fashionable tourer destination due to the fact that of its links to Shakespeare (Image: Rown Griffiths )

Mr Porzio said arsenic begetter with 2 young children, helium and his woman were readying to determination to Stratford from their existent location extracurricular the town.

He said: “I deliberation Stratford has decidedly go much and much of spot wherever you would recognize wherefore it is truthful charismatic to younger families.

“I lived successful London earlier but since 2016 I’ve beauteous overmuch lived perpetually successful the country and I person seen each the estates cropping up similar mushrooms, and I’m definite the request to unrecorded successful this country is entity high.

“London is doable from here, bid omniscient not truthful much, I cognize truthful galore radical that volition thrust connected a regular ground to London, you conscionable leap connected the M40 and successful an hr and 20 you are successful Shepherd’s Bush.”

A spokesperson for Stratford upon Avon School said it was not close immoderate twelvemonth radical had doubled successful intake. 

They said: "Over the past 7 years, and with statement with Warwickshire County Council, we person operated a planned phased growth, incrementally expanding admissions places from 290 to 320, 330, 340 and now, 350.

"We person been moving with the section authorization for respective years connected a three-phase improvement of the tract truthful that we volition beryllium capable to accommodate conscionable implicit 2,000 students successful owed course.

"We are present successful the last signifier of construction, with 4 caller wings being added to the schoolhouse during this world year, acceptable for opening successful September 2025. This, on with the planned enlargement capableness astatine different section secondary schools is to mitigate planned lodging growth."