Testun llawn:
In June 2012 I wrote to the Council objecting strongly to the plans to build on green belt land north of Leamington.
At the time, the plan was based on population growth forecasts which, in my view were erroneous and it did not follow the NPPF.
Nothing has changed, so why has this plan been put forward again?
The NPPF states that any plan should:
1 Promote town centre environments
2 Promote vitality of urban areas
3 Protect green belts around them
4 Recognise the benefits of best agricultural land
5 Conserve landscape and scenic beauty
6 Use brown field sites first
7 Only change green belt boundaries under exceptional circumstances
8 Even then only consider limited infilling of green belt land
9 Avoid potential coalescence
These plans ignore all 9 points.
These are not exceptional circumstances.
The plans should be scrapped again to preserve the sacrosanct boundaries in this 'Green and Pleasant Land'.