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Like many, I am dismayed by the scale of the new plan to build 2930 dwellings in this area.

I know one email is likely to do very little - and from previous campaigns, such as the Dog Control effort - I'm not convinced councillors take our protests seriously. However, I feel so strongly about this that I felt obliged to try.

A "sound plan" (I quote your words) does not require development in such an important area of Green Belt. In 2009 Warwick District Council approved A Core Plan for Strategic Growth until 2026 which catered for more homes than the current plan and did not involve development of the Green Belt between Leamington and Kenilworth.

The Government's National Planning Policy Framework requires there to be "very special circumstances" for there to be development in the Green Belt and for the harm created to the Green Belt to be outweighed by the benefit of the development. Those special circumstances are apparently that there is nowhere else for the homes to be built. The previous plan is direct evidence that this is not the case.

So, I hope someone is pleased with this ghastly effort. Obviously, the rugby club is happy. But many of us are appalled at the cavalier carving up of our precious woods and countryside.

I implore you to think again, and perhaps, just this once, listen to the people who live here.