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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Acres Land & Planning

The SWLP does not set out firm proposals. It lists 12 potential new settlements and yet it is implied only a handful will be taken forward. By implication most new development will be accommodated on large strategic sites, each having to build a range of services and facilities from scratch. This is unsustainable as it as it will leave older established towns (and villages) where services may be struggling, to decline and wither on the vine. This may be convenient for politicians to avoid objections from local people but towns and villages need to grow ‘organically’ to survive and thrive.

In practice any growth option will need to be a hybrid of all 5 options (and others). The choices are not mutually exclusive and the practical solution must reflect all needs across the two districts. The Councils have apparently rejected No.5 ‘Dispersal’ because a marginally larger proportion said it would be inappropriate rather than appropriate, but It would be catastrophic to abandon Warwickshire’s villages from new development just because a theoretical question produced a ‘wafer thin’ preference for a more concentrated strategy. This will lead to a cycle of decline in rural areas and move towards mediocrity elsewhere.