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ID sylw: 108042

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Rainier Developments Ltd

Asiant : Pegasus Group

Rainier Developments are supportive of a Green Belt review in to support the South Warwickshire Local Plan. Half of the Strategic Growth Locations are set within the Green Belt, where development would clearly align with the Councils’ selected spatial growth strategy, Sustainable Travel and Economy. The Topic Paper correctly recognises that all the options must be considered, including those in the Green Belt, to ensure that development is suitably distributed and directed to the most sustainable locations and a full Green Belt review is essential to developing a sound plan.
The definition of grey belt refers to previously developed land and/or any other land that, in either case, does not strongly contribute to any of purposes (a), (b), or (d) in Paragraph 143 of the NPPF. Thus, with over 100 parcels not strongly contributing towards these purposes, Rainier Developments would expect there to be a significant number of grey belt sites within South Warwickshire that can suitably accommodate development, and the next stage of the Green Belt Review should draw clear conclusions on this. The Green Belt policy in the SWLP Part 1 will need to make reference to grey belt to ensure that it is consistent with the NPPF, as required by Paragraph 36.
Rainier’s land interests within Strategic Growth Area SG18 is within the Green Belt. The Green Belt is tightly drawn around, and indeed, washes over, a number of existing settlements across the Plan area. In proposing, assessing and identifying sites for development, where the most sustainable forms of development will require the inclusion of land around existing settlements, and to avoid isolated development which ‘jumps’ the Green Belt the Green Belt boundary review, and identification of land within the Green Belt for development is supported.
It is also considered that Rainier’s land interests could constitute grey belt land suitable for development in accordance with the tests for grey belt defined in the NPPF (December 2024).
The South Warwickshire Local Plan Green Belt Review Stage 1 document supporting the draft Plan has considered Rainier’s land interests at Birmingham Road within a wider parcel of land, STR6. In terms of purposes a, b and d of including land in the Green Belt the parcel as a whole is considered to make no contribution. The parcel/sites within it should then be considered further in terms of their potential to deliver development on grey belt sites.