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ID sylw: 108332

Derbyniwyd: 23/06/2025

Ymatebydd: Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield

Asiant : Gladman Developments

We support the recognition that airfields can be particularly suitable for redevelopment for employment use, due to their large scale, and are content with the inclusion of a policy identifying airfields suitable for employment development. The identification of Wellesbourne Airfield is endorsed and recognises the conclusions of the South Warwickshire Employment Land Study 2024 that the site is suitable for partial redevelopment.

The draft policy direction proposes to safeguard the aviation function of Wellesbourne Airfield in line with existing Area Policy AS.9 in the adopted Core Strategy. It also acknowledges proposals to partially repurpose the site to include employment uses and the findings of the Employment Study (2024) noted above. Gladman’s live planning application for Wellesbourne Airfield demonstrates that these objectives can be simultaneously achieved.

Gladman also consider a more simplistic and effective policy approach would be to designate two individual and independent policies that cover the airfield and the proposed employment area separately, following the boundaries set out within the live planning application (24/02333/OUT).