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To include the Thickthorn / Rugby Club/ Wardens & Woodside sites into the Core Strategy threatens development that ignores the unsuitable 'ribbon' development along the A46 which could join up with the proposed Coventry Finham plans. the land has good existing community use .. The sports clubs involved would have to move further outside the town making them less accessible and the existing use provides a good barrier to the A46 noise & pollution. Birches lane is at times already congested and access to the A452 can already be very congested. Equally routs to Warwick University are very congested. Kenilworth is a small town and there is no way of accommodating further increases in traffic .. most days the main street is almost stationary for long periods and the intensification of traffic that extra housing and industry/commerce brings cannot be accommodated. The A46 appears to 'draw' planners to what is already a very intensively used road. If Kenilworth is to support further development then land at the north of Beehive hill is the best option as it will tend to create traffic towards Balsall Common/ Coleshill direction and away from already very congested roads.