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A Government Inspector found in favour of NO development of Woodside Farm in the Regional Special Strategy Programme. The arguments are the same against development so what has changed and above all WHY Phase 1 ?

The Government recommends no urban sprawl well that is exactly what will happen at Woodside Farm so what has changed ?

The elevation of the land, if developed, at the highest part of Woodside farm will cause a "blot on the landscape" visible to all entering Whitnash.

Access to Woodside Farm site would mean the removal of valuable woodland, hedgerows and farm fields that is the habitat of such a diversity of wildlife and the widening on an already busy and dangerous road network at Tachbrook Rd / Harbury Lane junction.

The steep incline of the land at Woodside Farm, if developed, would mean flooding of Tachbrook Rd / Harbury Lane, areas that already flood despite being a modern junction.

The land at Woodside Farm has underground power cables making this unsuitable for development.

Traffic in the Whitnash area is already conjested blocked and becoming dangerouse especially at peak times.

Existing schools have already become over extended and cannot safety extend any further. When Warwick Gates was built it was supposed to include a school this didn't happen.

Access to hospitals, police, fire service are limited due to all being situated north of the river and only accessible by 5 extremely busy bridges

There are virtually no green spaces left around Whitnash. The playing field in Harbury Lane is a white elephant provided to placate residents of Warwick Gates when the estate was built. It is little used for either sport or recreation, boarded up due to vandalism and a hazard with dog waste.

We are in a double recession now so how can you justify the building of all these houses as the development and increase in business is not there so who is going to buy these houses.