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No

ID sylw: 108673

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: CLLR Peter Phillips

1. Site B1 would completely subsume the villages of Hatton, Hatton Green, and Hatton Park, destroying their identify as separate and distinct communities. When combined with the proposal for SG07, this would create an urban sprawl to the West of Warwick, and would break the fundamental principle of the Green Belt of acting as a buffer zone, preventing uncontrolled expansion of cities and towns into surrounding areas.
It is not just inappropriate development in the Green Belt, but excessively so and is in contradiction to SO1 and SO5, both of which would not be met by such a large development in the countryside

2. The largest part of the land is used for agricultural, which would be lost. This will help increase our dependence on imported food products. This fails SO5, as our natural resources would be lost.

3. The existing road network is completely unable to handle the volume of the traffic that would be generated by approximately 8,000 houses. To be able to cope, significant public investment in new roads within a confined area, including possibly a new motorway junction, will be required.

4. The proposal puts great emphasis on the fact that Hatton has a station. Substantial public money will be required to improve the station, if it can even be extended which seems far from certain, together with major investment in Chiltern Railway capacity to handle the additional volume of travellers if the use of cars is to be limited. The issue of parking is largely ignored, assuming that people will be happy to walk the 20 minutes to the station, rather than take their car either to Hatton (where this is little land to expand the car parking facility) or to Warwick Parkway. This is particularly so for refid 166 and 693 which are at a considerable distance to the station. To suppose that residents will not use their cars is to fly in the face of all previous evidence when a development is built, remote from a significant public transport infrastructure, which Hatton Station cannot considered to be.

5. There is absolutely no infrastructure in place on the site, and the existing public local services ( NHS, education,etc.) in Warwick are already close to capacity. Without infrastructure being built simultaneously with any housing there is a real concern about how the new community would meet its day-to-day needs.

The same applies to utilities, which would need to be provided from scratch by National Grid, Severn-Trent etc..

There is therefore a significant risk to the new community and its new residents from any potential delays to the provision and opening of the facilities.


For the above reasons I would request that this site is excluded from the local plan.