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The "green lung" between Leamington and Kenilworth will be reduced. Highly productive farming land will be lost together with long established wild life habitat. The residents of local towns will be deprived of an area which is highly valued and sustainable for walking, running, cycling, riding, bird watching and is also used by local schools for educational walks.

The proposed park-and-ride scheme is unsustainable because: There will be no dedicated buses, so users will have to time visits to coincide with the bus timetable The site is too close to Leamington. It would be better if the site was focused on the A46 roundabout with the A452, which could form part of the Thickthorn development, and provide for Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth, Warwick University and potentially Coventry. Much of the traffic using the A452 crosses to the south of Leamington where there are the major employers Shoppers are unlikely to use the park and ride when there is plenty of parking in Leamington Oxford appears to have the only park and ride scheme in the country which really works and this is because there is such limited parking in Oxford city centre. There are already a lot of car parks in this area of Green Belt. A railway station is unviable because the railway line is in a deep cutting in Old Milverton making construction impractical