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WDC should revisit its plans and include sites to the north of Warwick and Leamington. Stratford DC are proposing to develop 4,800 new dwellings in the Lighthorne Heath and Gaydon areas. The combined weight of extra traffic these and the Warwick DC proposals will create, cannot be accommodated by increasing the capacity on a few junctions as described as the way in which this can be managed. The pressures on the existing roads are already under strain.

It is important that the character of villages south of Warwick and Leamington do not lose their distinct characters and community cohesion and become suburbs of the two towns.

The figures showing a need for these developments have not been shown to justify these developments. They rely upon unproven demand for movement into the area. Locations to the south of the two towns have extra housing already allocated to them.