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ID sylw: 107651

Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Laura Newberry

We support developments that:

1. Are close to major towns and cities, as we believe clustering around centres that already have established institutions (e.g. universities, R&D centres, cultural activities) offer better growth opportunities.
2. Can sustain additional development proportionate to the likely growth prospects for the area.
3. Have access to a range of transportation options, not just road.
4. Do not fundamentally change the character of the surrounding area.


We support development in locations best positioned for good transport links being well served by road and especially rail networks. By good transport links, as an absolute minimum ‘A’ roads should be directly accessible.

We support developments with easy access to larger settlements such as Birmingham and Coventry where they are easily accessible for work and leisure.

We support developments which utilise HS2 – settlements and industry could access and help to justify this rail link.

We encourage selection of sites not to be too heavily weighted towards major roads, especially the M40. This is very short-sighted given the preferred plan is designed to satisfy demand for homes until 2050. Such a narrow focus restricts the number of sites
available for expansion whereas consideration now of investments in rail and tram
networks would give the councils far greater scope.

The statement in the plan wants to reduce reliance on cars. We believe that sites selected should support this goal and use existing rail links, improve rail links and build tram etc links to those rail links. Easy and sustainable connections to the larger settlements/cities is likely to offer significant growth opportunities and employment prospects for Warwickshire residents.