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I am responding on behalf of West Midlands Leaders Board (WMLB) by e-mail in order to meet your consultation deadline of 09/04/10.

I have taken into careful account the advice which I have received from Warwickshire CC, which acts as our conformity advisors.

I note that the consultation focuses on alternative sites which have been put forward by developers and, as such, are not being promoted by the District Council. Therefore, I consider that there is nothing more which I can add at this stage to the original Core Strategy conformity opinion.

I cannot make a further judgment until you at the District Council consult on the next stage, after you have decided whether the inclusion of any of these potential allocations is warranted.

I consider that is the stage at which we at WMLB could consider how these sites would relate to the District's Spatial Strategy and conformity with the Regional Strategy ( which from April 2010 consists of the Regional Economic Strategy plus the January 2008 approved RSS and the as yet incomplete RSS Phase 2 Revision).