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Loes Farm sits on green belt and is part of a registered Park and Garden. Warwick is a town of great historic significance. Utilising one of its many historic sites for housing or other commercial ventures would devalue its worth.

The beauty and attraction of other historic parts of Guy's Cliffe - such as The Saxon Mill, Guys Cliffe House and its Walled Kitchen Garden (at Hintons Nursery) would also be put at risk.

Guys Cliffe provides the only tenable space between Warwick and Leek Wootton

The farm suffers from flooding. This extends to my cottage - with rain running from the farm to the drain outside the back door of my home. The drain - whilst properly maintained - regularly fills up quickly when it rains heavily, resulting in the water flooding into the kitchen, bathroom and cellar.

Even with sand bags, this cannot be prevented.

Areas of Hintons Nursery are also subjected to the same problems.

Further development on the land would clearly add to this problem.

Access to Loes Farm - from the A429 - is difficult at the best of times. There have been may accidents over the years - to which the farm's owners can attest. The area also has very limited services, being part of a rural community.

Any additional housing or business would require major infrastructural improvements.

As infrastructure development is unlikely to be funded by any development company, the money would need to come from central or local government; a difficult call on diminishing resources - for the foreseeable future.

The owners' submission that the farm is not financially viable is clearly misnomer and irrelevant. It is evident that the owners have chosen not to invest in the site since they sold the rest of tghe farm privately for the development of the Woodloes Estate in the 1970s.

That said the proposed area is still large enough for a variety of agricultural and horticultural business opportunities, should the owners choose to sell.

The owners also have other business interests including another farm, which is significantly larger and fully operational. They have recently transferred title for this, to their son.

Barlow Associate's submission seems to have been poorly prepared. This is evidence by the inclusion of freehold properties which do no form part of the Forrester's land, failing to mention existing covenants and the exclusion of any form of proposal for dealing with the inherent problems for current and future communities.

This could leave the Council with a large financial burden, which, in turn, could have a major impact on existing residents, arguably making it an unattractive option. I would suggest there are other sites which are better served by their existing services.