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Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Housing Mix
Clearly a mix of housing types is essential if people are to be housed efficiently, effectively and affordably. The Core Strategy preferred option document does not however show that much of a mix will occur because it advocates more of the same as at Warwick Gates and other recent developments.
It is not realistic to expect older people to downsize from their family home by just moving a smaller house. Some may, but most would wish to retain their independence and community links to friends and neighbours. However, if retirement villages for the active elderly with a range of social and leisure facilities, canalside, with restaurant facilities and independent living apartments and appropriate shopping provision either within the village or in the immediate vicinity, then people will choose to spend their autumn years in the company of others as at a permanent leisure centre, when their own family and friends ties are diminishing. The BTPC report identifies 2 potential sites, one at the Wise Street side of the Court Street comprehensive development site in Leamington and the other on K17 at Southcrest Farm in Kenilworth.
It is not for the WDC to dictate housing mixes on particular sites because this is more a function of the marketplace supply and demand. Guidance can be given and results monitored and compared with data being received from bodies with housing interests to ensure that at the end of the exercise the mix is near right as possible but this is a moving target and there will always be imperfections.