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ID sylw: 69618

Derbyniwyd: 16/04/2016

Ymatebydd: Mrs. Judy Walter

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Land North of Milverton is to fulfil Coventry's unmet housing need. Coventry's Local Plan declares preference for sites adjacent to the City's administrative boundaries. Land North of Milverton is Green Belt. The NPPF requires there to be "Exceptional Circumstances" for removal of such land from the Green Belt which WDC has failed to demonstrate.. It is good planning practice to consider first any deliverable and developable non-Green Belt land, followed by land that makes a lesser Green Belt contribution, before considering land of greater Green Belt contribution. There are more suitable and deliverable sites adjoining or closer to Coventry and Kenilworth including many with lesser Green Belt scores. These would be more sustainable, reducing commuter traffic into Coventry with its attendant pollution, congestion and new road construction requirements.
Allocating land North of Milverton for development would reduce the green space between Leamington and Kenilworth and adversely affect the northern gateway into to the historic regency town of Royal Leamington Spa. Building houses with roads and other infrastructure will impair the environment. Further consideration and unbiased analysis should concentrate, but not be limited to Kings Hill, sites adjacent to Coventry airport, sites adjacent to Westwood Heath and Hurst Farm adjoining Warwick University. Government policy favours sites larger the land at Old Milverton, which could not qualify for funding under the DCLG's Large Sites Infrastructure Programme with its 1,500 dwellings minimum, while Kings Hill, Westwood Heath and Hurst Farm could.
The proposal for a Park and Ride development is unsustainable. These schemes only work where there is a high demand by visitors and where the end destination is uneconomic to visit by car. Its location would be best on a major existing trunk road such as the A46, probably adjacent to Warwick Parkway rail station or close the Thickthorn Island. The concept of a railway station in Old Milverton is neither justified nor effective and would only be deliverable at great cost.