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ID sylw: 100482

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Michael Burgess

Inclusion of Green Belt areas such as SG06 results from a flawed selection process. The presented options are led by developer and landowner submissions. They are neither the best options for the area nor what the public would choose. There will be error margins of at least 10% to 25% in the assessments of carbon impacts over 20 to 30 years so it makes no sense to rank SGLs on the basis of trivial differences of 1% or less. Even the largest variance (7.5%) will be significantly less than the margin of error. The five purposes of Green Belt apply to the Green Belt areas selected as SGLs, and particularly SG06. There are no exceptional circumstances put forward to justify release. There is enough capacity in non-Green Belt sites to meet housing requirements.

North of Leamington, and particularly SG06, has no local facilities and could not meet the 20-minute neighbourhood objective. Sustainable transport links and areas of employment are on the opposite side of Leamington over the river. The proposal would therefore create traffic and congestion through Leamington. Thousands of houses would have a detrimental effect on the Northumberland Road conservation area through traffic, congestion and pollution.