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Derbyniwyd: 22/06/2012

Ymatebydd: Christopher Sutton

The concept of building in the north is flawed when there is available land to the south of Leamington which has better access to the motorway and other infrastructure.
Upgrading the A452 to a dual carriageway will only mean moving traffic faster between jams and building a new road would serve no purpose and would be extremely expensive having to include new bridges over the railway line, river and floodplain. It would put further stress on the existing lane between Old Milverton and the Rugby Road creating the need for an upgraded junction. The relief road would also increase traffic at the thickthorn island. It is queried how the housing figure was arrived at?
It is unclear whether we will be required to accomodate Coventry's overspill and if so why use greenbelt when their own brownfield sites should be used.The logical place to house workers for Gateway would be the old Peugeot site.

If there was a need for housing why was Ford Foundry not used for this purpose - it is a brownfield site close to business parks, supermarkets, the station and has good access to the motorway.
A newspaper article suggested a Leamington parkway station will be created which would take up more green belt for a station and car parking. Housing and associated development will result in the greenbelt in this area being lost forever decreasing the gap between Leamington and Kenilworth, adding to the traffic on the A452.
The high pressure gas pipelines which were a reason for eliminating land around Radford Semele existed at the time of the 2009 Core Strategy. The route of pipelines could provide the greenspace to serve the housing development.