BASE HEADER
Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction 1 - Meeting South Warwickshire's Sustainable Development Requirements?
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 92861
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Debra Thomas
Current plans should only run for the minimum amount of time, this being 15 years to 2040 as it is not feasible to understand and predict what may or may it be happening, even within the fifteen year window. Governments and councils come and go and within a fifteen year window many unexpected changes could take place and not committing Kenilworth and Warwickshire to any longer than necessary is a sensible and preemptive precaution.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 92864
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Summix Planning Limited
It is submitted that the policy should go further in directing growth to genuinely sustainable locations such as the land at New Road Henley in Arden which is already sustainable without the need to introduce significant infrastructure. This is an example of a location capable of delivering sustainable growth in the short term in a location that is extremely well connected to the town's railway station (footbridge and paths already exist) and the land can contribute directly to the delivery of sustainable development. Increased focus should be given to prioritising sustainable patterns of development.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 92870
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Alan Thomson
1st and 2nd Call sites which have been evaluated and 'sifted out' by the HELAA Part A should not be reentered to the Additional Sites process as this unnecessarily extends planning blight.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 92871
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Greg Thomas
Poor evidence that the proposed approach is required for demand within the designated area. There is poor recent evidence (last 12 months) of proper local assessments or surveys of many of the areas such as SG04. Where are the independent survey reports of the actual areas? Councillor and public visits, open discussions and consultation meetings specific to SG04? The scale of the proposal is inappropriate. The current administration will be defunct long before these massive generational changes are completed. Future needs could prove very different. 15 year plans are guessing, 5 year planning is far more agile and reliable.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 92921
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Steven Stretton
Too much green belt land under consideration for debvelopment when there are Strategic Growth locations available which are not green belt. Also the road and inftrastructure can not sustain this continual development, especially in the Hatton / Warwick areas.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93047
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Ms Joanne Finkel
Loss of Green space.
Lack of planning for essential infrastructure eg public transport, swimming pools, schools, hospitals, doctors, shops,
You're building ghettos not communities.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93175
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Raymond Joyce
Land East of Station Lane, refid 169
This site will detrimentally impact the canal conservation area.
Traffic on Rising Lane and Station Lane will cause congestion, particularly at the bend in the road by the Lapworth School and at the Chapel which has no parking. Rising Lane is already a busy road situated between the railway and canal bridges will lead to car accidents/collisions.
The land is low-lying and regularly floods.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93235
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Kim Salmon
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust is extremely concerned by the scale of the proposed housing, which seems grossly exaggerated. The Plan reports a need for 1,679 dwellings per annum, but suggests allocating 600 surplus houses to allow sufficient flexibility. This will have a significant negative impact on the important habitats and protected species across the area. The Local Plan must deliver houses in suitable numbers for residents but in suitable locations and must not disregard the Environment Act 2021 target of 30% of land allocated to nature and in recovery by 2030. Its important to protect declining species
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93312
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Duncan Taylor
I don't agree that we need all this housing.
What makes Warwickshire beautiful and a desirable place to live, work and visit is the variety of countryside and urban areas, interspaced with villages and farmland.
If we build on all this farmland we will have destroyed our food security as well as destroyed the beauty of the area.
I urge you to think again.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93368
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr geoff marston
housing need seems exaggerated.
600 (35.7%) surplus homes will have substantial negative effects on wildlife.
Green belt reviews should be more detailed and these belts should be better protected with no housing allocation.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93448
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Denise Holroyde
Brownfield sites must be fully used first before any other sites are considered for development.
The A46, A452 and other roads local to Leamington Spa are already heavily congested and create pollution within residential areas.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93502
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Bernard Davis
The housing demand calculations are based on some very spurious assumptions and seem to assume a continuing never-ending growth in population, backed up with very few facts. Current housebuilding has been far slower than earlier plans assumed, and demand for many years to come can be met by existing allocations. There is no need to redesignate green belt land to meet reasonable growth assumptions.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93758
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr William Campbell
the Birmingham Rd, Henley Rd & A46, around Warwick suffer constant congestion and more so when the M40 has issues.
All development under SG07 & SG08 (including their numbered REF ID's) would add to this traffic load significantly.
Current GP & Schools capacity is already under heavy strain.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93768
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Minhaz Ali-Bache
Why do we need so much development? Resources already feel strained as it is and there are plenty of houses recently built or in the process.
Why are we even thinking about building on green belt? This will have a huge detrimental impact on the rural character and openness of the area.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93772
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Warwick District Green Party
-We do not agree with the government mandate, as it will not happen due to current developer incentives. We acknowledge the local plan must follow the mandate.
-The most effective way to reduce the number of green fields to be allocated in this local plan is to shorten the plan period so that it would end in 2042. Making only about half the new land available for development would put the Council in a much stronger negotiating position with developers.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93868
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr David Brown
There is nothing sustainable in the approach taken as part of the SWLP call for sites
Kenilworth infrastructure not coping with the current developments - hospital, doctors, dentists, schools, road network are oversubscribed with no scope for growth.
Road network is unsuitable around all of Kenilworth.
Hs2 development and decimation of Warwickshire green belt has not been considered as part of the SWLP plan.
Plan to 2050 is not relevant council, government and policies will have changed by 2050 - plan should be shorter term - housing requirement should be recalculated.
Brownfield sites should be prioritised for re- development
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94102
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr David Kelly
I believe that growth is the right idea, just needs to be in the right areas and prioritising brownfield reuse rather than destroying green belt land to suit ease.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94224
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Andrew Close
This policy should be setting the development strategy. Unfortunately it does not; this is not a 'preferred option'. It sets out 'potential options', as described as a direction of travel. The Councils could have offered residents more transparency as to which sites (or groupings) officers/politicians feel are 'best' at this stage and the reasons why. While having another 'full' consultation is welcomed, the approach taken is somewhat devolving responsibility; issues are complex and residents don't have time/expertise to review all (too much) information. Neither should all this be left to the Draft plan Reg 19 stage.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94277
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Dudley MBC
In respect of helping to address the Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) housing shortfall, we consider that development in the most sustainable locations which provides sustainable commuting links to the wider conurbation would be appropriate. We consider that new settlements would also be appropriate, as they would generate a significant scale of housing with associated employment uses, justifying significant infrastructure and transport improvements including new and improved commuting links.
We welcome the acknowledgement of the West Midlands Strategic Employment Sites Study (2024). This assists in meeting an identified regional need for such strategic employment sites.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94302
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Jon Redhead
This approach should only run for 15 years, and not the over 40 years that it now runs for. This would reduce the substantial need for unnecessarily high house building targets, and as needs will change greatly with the present long time duration. The infrastructure problems are not being addressed at all in most cases, and are falling far too short and inadequate to support the need to carry on building just housing alone. Green Belt land could never be considered as sustainable because once it is built on, it can never be regenerated, and loss immeasurable for future generations.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94314
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: James Springate
Building a lot of housing will reduce their value, and reduces the open space that is so attractive in Warwickshire. This will cause people of high net worth to move away to escape the destruction, leaving only people of lower net worth, this will make Warwickshire a less attractive place.
Keep house building to a minimum, which will encourage high net worth people to come here.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94320
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Michael Sanderson
There is no mention of grey belt (NPPF Dec 2024). There is no spatial analysis of brown and grey belt sites which could result in sustainable sites when incorporating adjacent green belt sites. I object to the continued inclusion of the dispersed growth strategy. This option does not support SO2 as dwellings in these locations require a high level of income. Growth must come from expanding central places incorporating green corridors.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94321
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Dan Kendrick
I am a local resident and do not support this
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94598
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Rainier Developments Ltd
Asiant : Turley
The employment needs should continue to be expressed as minimum requirements and that allocations for both strategic and non-strategic sites should be made to fully satisfy assessed needs. A policy mechanism which provides flexibility to accommodate non-strategic industrial needs beyond this, subject to relevant conditions or criteria being met, should also be considered.
Smaller sites will be required to complement the strategic allocations, with smaller sites in Priority 1 areas evidently representing sustainable options for satisfying this need and creating a more balanced portfolio of employment land in locations close to where strategic scale housing growth is being planned.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94678
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Miss Gala McBride
B1 land at Hatton
The proposal of 8500 houses on green belt land and on conservation land threatens to overwhelm Hatton village - it's bigger than the village is now. There are no shops larger than two small village shops and post offices until you get to Hatton so we use the A4117 to get to Warwick for most needs, including Warwick Hospital which is at full stretch. Last year, Hatton suffered a large number of electricity blackouts as well as broadband go-slows. Roads are very often blocked with traffic coming from Birmingham when other roads are blocked.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94690
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Roger Wilson
The following applies to sites 148(fell Mill Lane) and 747 (Leasow Farm):
-Both sites are high risk flooding areas(see HELAA) and are crucial elements of the flood plain which will protect Shipston as global warming continues to cause havoc with the local rainfall.
-Both Barcheston and Honington bridges are historic, weight-restricted bridges served by narrow roads that are typical of this area. They would therefore not only be unsafe for construction traffic but would present unbearable bottlenecks for local families.
-Massive infrastructure improvement would have to be funded as Shipston's current healthcare, schools and public transport are already barely sustainable.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94741
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: David Gosling
no further comment
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94748
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Caroline Jackson
n/a
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94781
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Stratford-upon-Avon Town Transport Group
Providing the necessary transport infrastructure for areas within priority 1-3 takes account of existing conditions, and is planned and completed in advance of construction of homes or employment locations.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94953
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Christopher Bull
I disagree with the spatial growth strategy use of priority areas 1-3 as, whilst well intended, the outcome of this method has led to a growth distribution that contradict the stated Strategic objectives of the local plan for 2 key reasons.
1)They have led to the proposed SG01-08 sites along the route of the A46. Therefore creating a linear development along a road that will become dormitory neighborhoods for road commuters.
2) The priorities area sustainability argument relies on existing infrastructure like railway stations in historic town, this is flawed as the surrounding road infrastructure cannot sustain the existing traffic.