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We are against the new proposal for the Local Plan for North Leamington for the following reasons:

The District Council has not demonstrated that there are' exceptional circumstances' for the development of Green Belt land as stated in the NPPF, as suitable and available land has been identified within 'white belt' land.
If Green Belt is allowed to be built on where will it end? In future there will be no boundaries to prevent it being built on again.
Residents living in the north of the town will have to cross the town to shop as all the major supermarkets, Sainsbury's, Asda and the new Morrison's are in the south of the town. This will cause more traffic to cross town, thus increasing pollution.
If houses are only to be built in small 'batches', a few each year in different areas, where is the incentive for new schools to be built as there would be insufficient number of school aged children in a mixed development? A new school was promised for Warwick Gates - it was never built and yet there was a sufficient number of primary school children in the area to warrant one.
Has any research been carried out to ascertain what employment opportunities there would be in each area, other than building work?
The character of Old Milverton will be destroyed if a North Leamington Relief Road is built (the estimated cost of £28million is surely a conservative estimate) not to mention the urban sprawl which would cause Leamington to join up to Kenilworth.
Leamington town centre is not big enough to support increased population.


Why not?
Develop the area around Europa Way/Heathcote - building in effect a new town/village as the infrastructure is already there; the M40 and the station is close by; employment facilities already exist on the industrial estates and on Warwick Technology Park ?