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Yes

ID sylw: 107805

Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Rachel Cross

Site 569 is totally unsuitable for development in terms of flooding, access and HS2, and hope you will agree therefore that it should be completely removed from your consideration.

The flood risk is not limited to a boundary of the site as considerable areas beyond this have flooded twice this year already with some of the land being almost permanently boggy making the whole site unsuitable for development.

Access to the site from Weston under Wetherley is via an exceptionally narrow and prolonged strip of land. The East of the site is limited by a river with the only viable bridge East being a single lane historic bridge into Hunningham which is unsuited for any large commercial vehicles (it is already susceptible to vehicle strikes). Similarly to the North of the Site, the direct route to the A445 (which would be a major route to transport from this site), is also restricted to single lane traffic on Weston Road. Whilst there is a road to Leamington Spa via a bridge over HS2 this does not include cycle lanes meaning it is only a narrow bridge with limited pedestrian capacity and no accessible footpath to Leamington. In effect therefore, not only would development on this site be entirely reliant on motorised vehicle transport, but those vehicles would be heavily constrained by pinch points to the North, East and West with no Southern route available.

HS2 has already ruined the landscape of this area and in planning terms, forms a hard landscape feature and permanent solid barrier to the north of Leamington. It is important that development in the greenbelt does not extend over this barrier as it will result in rapid erosion of the greenbelt between Leamington and Coventry, which is already heavily under pressure.

Since this site has already been consulted on, leading to this model being removed from the plan, site 569 should not "remain in consideration of the SWLP".