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ID sylw: 107534

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

No. Warwickshire Wildlife Trust is extremely concerned regarding the allocation of a whole new settlement of up to 6,000 homes and the potential environmental impacts. Local Wildlife Sites, Potential Wildlife Sites, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, designated Nature Reserves and other important sites are incredibly important for wildlife within our natural landscape. It doesn’t appear that the Councils have considered these at all in the selection of their new settlement locations.
WWT also has issues over scale of the new settlements at 6,000 homes. Which will have Large impacts on wildlife corridors and surroundings by habitats.
Several proposed new settlements in the Local Plan are within existing Green Belt, which hasn’t been fully reviewed, with no option of ‘no green belt; in the Sustainability Apprisal.
If built these would have a negative impact on designated sites and wildlife including protected and declining species at these locations which are transitional buffers for nature and would reduce access to nature for people living in urban areas.
Impacted Local Wildlife Sites are listed below:
A1
LWS Mockley Wood, River Alne, Rams Hall Coppice
pLWS Round Wood and Longwood, Forde Hall Lane Hedges, Little FordHall, Tanworth Hedgerow
Within 50m of the following potential Local Wildlife Sites Bates Green Lane
Greenbelt and 40+ha of woodland.
A2
LWS Park Farm Meadows, Clarksland Coppice, River Alne, Bissells Coppice, Jonathans Coppice
pLWS Browns Green Wood, Shakespeare Line Railway, Malthouse Lane Meadows, Umberslade Park Woods, Spring Brook Pond, Spring Brook Hedgerow
Rural location within Green Belt
B1
LWS Brownley Green Lane, River Avon and Tributaries, River Alne, Hatton Wood, Hatton Locks Meadows, Grand Union Canal West
pLWS Meadows and Ponds Bordering Grand Union Canal, Wood at Hatton Farm, Hatton Rush Pasture, Wood, Railway Embankment, The Wilderness, Barnes Coppice, Hill Kitchen Coppice and Surrounding Woodland, Hatton Hill Fields
Within 50m of the following Local Wildlife Sites Hatton Park Grasslands
Greenbelt and overall contains around 5ha of woodland and around 5ha of medium connectivity grassland as well as the Grand Union Canal.
BW
LWS River Alne, River Avon and Tributaries
pLWS Gospel Oak Lane, Meadow
Within 50m of the following potential Local Wildlife Sites Hardwick Farm Meadows, Bearley Sidings, Wood by Churchill, Arden Hill Farm Meadow, Hardwick Farm Meadows.
Within Green Belt and adjacent to Snitterfield and Bearley Bushes SSSI, important SSSI and LWS.
C1
LWS Turners End Farm (North), Rowington Coppice, Turners End Marsh, The Long Meadow, Grand Union Canal West, Brome Hall Lane, River Alne, Western Hall Farm, Baddesley Clinton Park
pLWS Brome Hall Bridge Marsh, Stratford on Avon Canal, Turners End Farm (North), Harborough Banks
Within 50m of the following potential Local Wildlife Sites Harborough Banks, Turners End Farm north.

Hay Wood Local Wildlife Sites is close by just over 50 metres.
Greenbelt and contains around 10ha wetland and 7ha woodland.


E1
LWS Meon Vale,
pLWS Meon Vale, Marchfont Brook Corridor, Wincot Lands Wood, The Greenway, Dismantled Railway, Lower Gorse and Sheepleys Covert, The Greenway Meadow
Within 50m of the following Local Wildlife Sites River Avon and Tributaries
Contains 30ha of high connectivity grassland.
F1
pLWS Land adjacent to SSSI
Within 0.5km of Harbury Cutting SSSI and cuts into the “Land adjacent to SSSI” pLWS.

F2
pLWS River Itchen, Clear Pool, Deppers Bridge Farm,
Within 50m of the following Local Wildlife Sites Hambridge Road Meadows
Within 50m of the following potential Local Wildlife Sites Disused Railway

Within 0.5km of Harbury Cutting SSSI. Bisected by River Itchen (which is pLWS). Adjacent to Bishops Hill and Bishops Bowl pLWS and contains Clear Pool pLWS. Contains 2 ha of woodland.
F3
pLWS Grange Farm (keep), Watergall Fox Covert, Hill Farm Brook and Meadow, Bush Close Spinney, River Itchen Triburtary, River Itchen, Watergall Bridge Pond
Within 50m of the following potential Local Wildlife Sites Disused Railway

Within 0.75km of River Itchen SSSI. Contains two brooks, 3.6ha woodland and considerable amounts of high connectivity grassland habitats.
G1
LWS Knightcote Bottoms Farm
pLWS Bawcutt's Covert
Within 50m of the following potential Local Wildlife Sites Disused Railway, Green Lane
1.25km of River Itchen SSSI.
X1
LWS River Avon and Tributaries,
pLWS Plestowes Spinney and Hareway Lane Woodland, Wood
Within 50m of the following Local Wildlife Sites Oakley Wood


X2
LWS River Avon and Tributaries, Whitnash Brook
pLWS Highdown Farm & Highdown Hill Plantation, Field at Fosse Farm
Within 50m of the following potential Local Wildlife Sites Mollington Hill, Railway Cutting