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Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction-18-Supporting Rural Employment and Diversification?
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 86075
Derbyniwyd: 12/01/2025
Ymatebydd: Sandy McCaskie
N/A
No
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ID sylw: 86664
Derbyniwyd: 29/01/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Peter Bridgewater
Keep South Warwickshire Farming means keeping it as Farms.
Farmers get huge subsidies for owning land and large tax breaks. If any farming business then uses this privilege to diversify out of farming, they should be facing the same planning demands as any other individual or business. There is nothing special about farming as a business.
Most South Warwickshire farms do not produce food for humans, they produce food for animals. This is not a carbon sustainable model.
Public support for farmers should be focussed on getting public benefits in return, by way of land, water and air sustainability improvements.
No
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ID sylw: 86915
Derbyniwyd: 31/01/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Arthur Hogan-Fleming
The level of rural crime increasing and the "family farm tax" will gradually kill off rural employment.
Yes
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ID sylw: 87369
Derbyniwyd: 08/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Bryony Dinnie
Rural development and employment must be supported especially if more houses are built in rural areas
Yes
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ID sylw: 87394
Derbyniwyd: 08/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Cllr Andrew Day
None
Yes
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ID sylw: 87576
Derbyniwyd: 09/02/2025
Ymatebydd: mrs susan morris
I agree
Yes
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ID sylw: 88417
Derbyniwyd: 15/02/2025
Ymatebydd: British Film Institute
Asiant : Ms Giulia Bunting
BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.
BFI’s storage facility at Lighthorne forms an integral part of the BFI’s National Archive. BFI is currently looking at options to expand its operations at this long-established brownfield site.
Draft Policy Direction 18 should provide for the development of existing brownfield sites in rural areas enabling the growth and expansion of businesses and operations, subject to criteria relating to impacts, to support the appropriate expansion of all types of sustainable businesses in rural areas.
This approach is supported by NPPF paras 85, 88(a), and 89.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 88420
Derbyniwyd: 15/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Maurice Stokes
Farmers need the additional supplementary income.
No
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ID sylw: 88690
Derbyniwyd: 17/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Ida Marjorie Brown
Rural Employment and Diversification should be reviewed on case by case basis and merit where it provides opportunity for rural jobs in rural communities. I do not agree that is should be tied to your spatial growth strategy. That is too rigid and inflexible and can be misinterpreted. I believe if a solid business case and proposal can be put forward and justified then the councils should have the flexibility to approve on a case by case. The SWLP should not dictate where these sites should be.
Yes
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ID sylw: 88822
Derbyniwyd: 18/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Sidney Syson
But this also ties in with transport and accommodation needs.
No
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ID sylw: 89035
Derbyniwyd: 19/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Stratford upon Avon District Council
Agriculture must come first and preservation of land classified in quality of 3A and above should be protected. Diversification should only be allowed where it will not damage agriculture or harm the environment
Yes
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ID sylw: 89248
Derbyniwyd: 19/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Jon Knight
Providing rural opportunities means that communities can stay together, especially in the face of mechanised farming reducing workforce sizes over the last 30+ years. I think this policy should work well with draft policy direction 17, so that the new diversified rural industries are gree/eco-friendly/biodiversity friendly ones. Don't just allow car body shops and container storage facilities on "spare" bits of farms.
Yes
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ID sylw: 89406
Derbyniwyd: 20/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Amanda Knight
No additional comments
Other
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ID sylw: 90459
Derbyniwyd: 23/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Dr Louise Stewart
If the intention is to support local agricultural businesses, then please advise why the BW strategic growth proposal has been included? This is primarily based in inclusion if agricultural land and won’t=ld therefore seem to run counter to the proposals included for consultation on this section.
No
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ID sylw: 90492
Derbyniwyd: 23/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Jayne Jones
No evidence of how this will apply with SG17, without details of proposed infrafstructure improvements
Yes
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ID sylw: 90587
Derbyniwyd: 24/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Terry Simmonds
Incentivize employers to set up in rural areas, encourage long term commitment, then provide housing only if the employers come.
Don't just allow more housing to be built assuming it will then attract new employers.
Other
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ID sylw: 91164
Derbyniwyd: 25/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Radford Semele Parish Council
‘This policy should make it clear that it does not provide support for solar farms or wind
farms which should be subject to a separate set of criteria.’
Yes
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ID sylw: 91264
Derbyniwyd: 25/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Geoff Norman
Sensible
Other
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ID sylw: 91754
Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Joanne Taylor
I agree providing that Nature and ecological goals are set and kept
Yes
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ID sylw: 92276
Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025
Ymatebydd: SolStar Power Limited
Asiant : Enzygo
SolStar Power support Draft Policy Direction 18, but consider that the draft policy could be further expanded.
Other
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ID sylw: 92389
Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Julian Brown
I partially agree with the policy but oppose employment development outside settlement boundaries, even if it aligns with the Spatial Growth Strategy. Developing on green belt land near towns with better infrastructure (within 5-7 miles) is unwise. This plan lacks adequate road infrastructure planning for potential growth. For instance, SG23's employment development is unnecessary when SG24, B1, A2, and BW are more suitable sites for larger housing and business development.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 92947
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Ms Alison Blake
I presume you are consulting with the farmers about this, though I would like to have seen mention of encouraging the growing of different crops to keep supply local.
Yes
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ID sylw: 93795
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr William Campbell
Agree in principle
Yes
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ID sylw: 93894
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Beverley Comley
No comment
No
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ID sylw: 94075
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Stuart Mace
Expansion of and enhancement to existing businesses should be promoted before diversification. Focus must be on food sustainability and home grown produce, ahead of turning farms in to campsites or 'solar farms' with consequential loss of arable crops, grazing land and rural landscape.
Yes
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ID sylw: 94789
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Caroline Jackson
I support this. Taking away agricultural land which is earning money then gives the need for farmers to diversify if they have the opportunity to do so
No
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ID sylw: 94889
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Kineton Parish Council
The wording in second bullet point seems to permit development outside of settlement boundaries if of an appropriate scale to location.
Supporting rural employment is accepted BUT this must be within a BUAB. Experience has shown that an approved application for business accommodation can subsequently be demonstrated as lacking demand and the application converted into residential. Attempts to breach Settlement Boundaries by offering rural employment accommodation with subsequent variation must be avoided. Similarly if the development takes place but not occupied Change of Use should not be permitted. The developer should revise tenancy type and/or charges
Yes
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ID sylw: 95146
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Susan Frawley
N/A
Yes
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ID sylw: 95621
Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Jon Redhead
The area of Green Belt land behind my property has, in the past, been used by the local Farmers for Sheep grazing, Wheat, & Barley crops, and was always a fertile, viable business, for which there is now, so much need. This would be a fantastic return to use for the land, which is needed to support our present population.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 95842
Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr David Carter
This policy should make it clear that it does not provide support for solar farms or wind farms which should be subject to a separate set of criteria.