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Here are my comments on Warwick District Council's proposals to build on Greenbelt land to the north of Leamington Spa.
I believe that building on greenbelt land to the north of Leamington Spa (Milverton and Blackdown) is the wrong location for development in this area, though well done in listening to the local community in respect of not including the hugely valuable allotments. Building houses on this scale in this location will produce further chaotic traffic congestion in the north of the town where the existing road system is unable to cope already. The proposal to build the new link road from Blackdown to the A46 probably only stands up if the rest of the program is to be implemented but it would help relieve congestion as a stand-alone project. In conjunction with the volume of proposed new houses, it would exacerbate the bottlenecks in the road system on the Kenilworth Road and Northumberland Road, neither of which have significant scope for widening or other "improvement".
The previously identified development land to the south of the town at Heathcote would reduce the need to develop on green-belt land and is much preferable in terms of links with existing road networks. It is also the right side of town for access to the railway station and existing employment areas.
Please reconsider this proposal and spare the greenbelt. Greenbelt is there for a purpose and there are no exceptional circumstances that would justify its loss, particularly when there are suitable, more sensible alternatives.