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ID sylw: 107552

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Charlecote Parish Council

This area lacks essential infrastructure for housing development, including rail and public transport connectivity, primary school spaces, nearby secondary schools, and local medical facilities which can take new patients.

The area is served by only two major roads – the A429 Warwick Road and B4086 Stratford Road. Both are already heavily impacted by traffic from new housing in Wellesbourne and Tiddington, congestion from visitors to the Saturday market, and likely impacts of the proposed University of Warwick expansion (an increase to some 4,000 people employed/studying on site). Additional pressures would result from Wellesbourne Airfield development and the proposed quarry near Barford. The area is already experiencing overdevelopment.

Tourism is crucial to Stratford-upon-Avon's economy. Such significant growth within a few miles of Stratford-upon-Avon would detract from the town’s status as a tourist destination. Additional congestion would make access to Stratford more challenging for visitors.

Overdevelopment would cause loss of Best and Most Versatile Land, and significant harm to landscape character, irreversibly altering the rural gateways to Stratford-upon-Avon, Charlecote and Hampton Lucy.

Charlecote is home to the historic Charlecote Park and House, a Grade I Listed Building & Parkland and one of the West Midlands' most visited National Trust properties, attracting approximately 250,000 visitors annually. Housing development adjacent to or nearby Charlecote’s historic gateway and significant heritage asset cannot be supported. Such development would be contrary to Paragraphs 189 to 208 of the NPPF, Core Strategy CS8, and policies protecting the historic and rural character of the area.