South Warwickshire Local Plan

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Preferred Options Consultation - Land at Stratford Road, Warwick

ID sylw: 67304

Derbyniwyd: 12/12/2014

Ymatebydd: Ms Ellen Miller-Haynes

Crynodeb o'r Gynrychiolaeth:

Process for choice of this site flawed. Consultation has been misleading.
Severn Trent land is not immediately available and they do not support this plan and will not allow access over their land.
CPO would fail criteria of land being immediately available and not in Council ownership
Size of site inappropriate for small village of Longbridge.
Building this close to M40 has health risks.
School oversubscribed and no funding for promised new school.
Poor access on dangerous corner off A429
Flood plain, but study needs more work and no costs given for work required
SA raised red flag against air, water and soil quality but doesn't say how you will resolve this.
Noise assessment not of acceptable quality occurring in single 4 hour period in good conditions

Testun llawn:

I wish to raise my formal objection to the land being used at Stratford Road for a Gipsy and Traveller site due to the following reasons. The process WDC has followed to select the Proposed Site as a preferred option has been flawed and before any site can be selected a more transparent, democratic and evidence-based process must be run. The public consultation has been misleading and sending a housing officer to the public meeting rather than a member of the planning team unacceptable or a deliberate attempt to spread disinformation. The process followed is far from widely accepted best practice and the ones implemented for the rest of Warwick in previous consultations which we were not part of due to this site being discounted and then being added in at the 11th hour.

My planning objections are as follows:-
- The Severn Trent Land is not available for development immediately and although you have insisted it is available they have committed in writing that they do not support this plan and additionally will not allow access through their land.
- Any use of a CPO would fail the governments planning criteria on land being immediately available and the land proposed is not currently in your ownership
- The Size of the site is inappropriate for the small village of Longbridge which has protected Rural status, and the site size is right at the top end of the current planning guidelines.
- Building this close to the M40 has significant health risks for children and should be discouraged.
- Over subscription off the local schools and no funding in place currently to build the new promised school although permission has been granted
- Poor Access to the site on a dangerous corner off A429 - the planning guidelines state that due to the length of the vehicles involved this needs to be built into the road design and current lane to site is not fit for purpose and needs to be improved
- Land is on a flood plain and although the council has quoted a study to say the risk can be managed, the study itself warns against this conclusion as more studying is required. Additionally there are no costs associated with this work.
- Your own assessments raised a red flag against air, water and soil quality on site but doesn't state how you will resolve this.
- The noise assessment undertaken at the site is not of an acceptable quality as it only occurred in a single 4 hour period in good conditions - this was noted in the report and you are well aware of its shortcomings