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Preferred Options
ID sylw: 49101
Derbyniwyd: 24/07/2012
Ymatebydd: Derek Murray
The 2009 Core Strategy identifies more suitable alternative sites outside the Green Belt.
Attractiveness of land to the market does not demonstrate exceptional circumstances.
The buffer housing should be excluded from the plan as it is not necessary.
Concerns were not properly address at recent public meeting.
I am writing to oppose the current 2012 preferred options for housing in the Green Belt for Old Milverton & Blackdown.
The previous 2009 core strategy plan is direct evidence that there are alternative areas for development other than in this Green Belt. The "Very special circumstances" forwarded by WDC are clearly wrong. Developers not finding South Leamington attractive enough or less profitable have no justification for releasing this precious piece of Green Belt separating Leamington from Blackdown & Old Milverton.
WDC has already added nearly 1400 homes to the number it anticipates are needed so has to include a "buffer" in their forecasts. Surely with all the brown and white field sites readily available in Leamington/Warwick, Blackdown & Old Milverton Green Belt land should be excluded from this plan?
I sat at the meeting on Monday 16th July at Old Milverton Parish Church and listened very carefully to many highly intelligent residents including a professor, a scientist, a barrister and solicitors all asking very relevant questions about flaws in this new 2012 preferred options yet neither Bill Hunt or Councillor Doody answered any of their questions or statements of facts with anything relating to any of these highly relevant issues at all? It felt like the residents were been side tracked away from the main issues at hand for the whole meeting.
All I am sure of is that if these new local plan is adopted; it will obliterate some of the most precious pieces of green belt left in Warwickshire.
Please re-think this. Please!