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Yes

ID sylw: 98894

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Susan Meacham

I am strongly opposed to the site being proposed as a preferred location for development for the South
Warwickshire Local Plan.
The HELAA Part A and B assessments for this site should to be reviewed.
My concern is that development in this location would conflict with planning policies made in the Tanworth in
Arden Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP), 12th December 2022, 2021 – 2031.
The site should not be in the Local Plan. My reasons are below.
HELAA Part A assessment:
Ownership:
• The owner of the Land, does not own sufficient land to provide a safe entry and exit to and from the
site.
Viability and Deliverability:
• Access is very restricted and there is no other alternative access, the ranking should be Red and not be included in Part B assessment.

• The site is located on land at the rear of properties on Malthouse Lane and The Maltings, down to the
boundary with Terrys Pool. Introducing a housing development down the slope into the area separating the lakes from distant existing development in this protected view would be detrimental to the sense of tranquillity characterising the area and the lakes.
• The proposed site, is in conflict with Tanworth in Arden NDP Policy H3.
• Development of the site conflicts with Policy NE1 of the NDP
Traffic Issues
• Additional traffic volumes will be generated putting further pressure on infrastructure, for example
Malthouse Lane is not gritted in Winter
• Access to Malthouse Lane is via a singletrack road across the causeway via Earlswood Lakes, not
suitable for increased volumes of traffic (there are regularly altercations and issues on the causeway)
• Small lane is a narrow road with passing places
• Springbrook Lane is a country lane that cannot sustain increased volumes of traffic
• Development would be out of character with Malthouse Lane (a ribbon development)
• The area is used for recreation, (i.e. walkers, joggers, cyclists, fishermen, horse riding), all use
Malthouse Lane. More traffic due to further development would put the participants in danger.
Erosion of the Natural Environment
• Earlswood is a Linear development consists of tightly packed houses arranged in a series of narrow
and deep plots lying perpendicular in coherent lines running parallel to the roadside. The
development of this land would be out of character with the rest of the area
• The proposed site sits in an area designated as green belt
• The Green belt is important to the local community of being in or near open countryside
Waste Disposal Capacity
• There are already problems with waste water disposal capacity. The system is overloaded to the point
that Sewage tankers regularly have to draw out sewage from the Severn Trent treatment station. The
system is overloaded and local residents complain about the build-up of noxious smells.
Transport Links
• Public Transport links are poor in Earlswood, this development would encourage further use of
Private Motor vehicles, thus putting addition pressure on the inadequate roads that serve the area.
• There is very poor bus service (once or twice a day)
• Train Service (1 train per hour) connects Earlswood to either Stratford or Birmingham. No sign of that
increasing.