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ID sylw: 107639

Derbyniwyd: 27/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Elaine MErrygold

Red House Farm Development – North of Barford
At the JPC run meeting in Barford School on Wednesday 26 February this site was discussed.
While not appearing to be perfect this proposal does have some merits.
Anyone who uses the M40 regularly knows that the pair of half junctions at J13 and J14 just do not work, so a proposal to replace these with a better designed and built, full sized, junction should resolve some of the problems at these two junctions and relieve part of the congestion on J15. It would also help to reduce the traffic using our village and Barford as alternative routes if J15 is blocked (as frequently happens). The logic of then building Industrial / Commercial / Logistic premises around this new junction and providing employment has a certain inescapable logic. Indeed if the developers fund all or most of the cost of the motorway junction this would be a good way of updating the local infrastructure which is almost certainly not in either the current plans, or budget, of either County of National Highways.
Such use would be even more reason not to proceed with Sites 181 and 364 as it would have good access, not affect J15 or the A429, is not in Flood Zone 3 and would not dominate a small rural village.
However, while I can see the merits of this, to attach the proposed settlement of X1 to this would change the character of the area, bringing the south of Warwick and Leamington to the edge of Barford and possibly Wellesbourne. Over time this could lead to Barford being subsumed into a Warwick/Leamington conurbation as has happened with Whitnash and - in the near future - Bishops Tachbrook.