Other

ID sylw: 104040

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Dr Diana Taulbut

Yes - but when do you ever see anything but inappropriate development? Is there going to be a complete change? I have seen some excellent examples in Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire of new build in the local vernacular style - but not in Warwickshire. 'Townhouses' perched round roundabouts on the fringes of settlements are an obomination. England is covered in patches of nearly-identical brick houses with flood ponds, no front gardens, on stupid convoluted narrow roads, without footpaths, and insuffient road connections, and it's competely ruinous of local character and identity. Are you finally going to change this??

Other

ID sylw: 104119

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Elizabeth White

"The NPPF is CLEAR that 'development that is not well-designed should be REFUSED, especially where it fails to reflect local design policies and GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE ON DESIGN'."

W22/0232 - subsequently WITHDRAWN when CALLED-IN BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE
W/23/1746 > APP/T3725/W/24/3347138
W/23/1766??

Yes

ID sylw: 104154

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Stephen Norrie

Yes, this seems like a good set of principles for urban design.

Yes

ID sylw: 104420

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: South Warwickshire Foundation trust

We welcome the focus on healthy, inclusive communities, as well as the health and wellbeing benefits of 20-minute neighbourhoods, and would seek further engagement with regards to the implications for healthcare services and facilities.

We are keen to see developments which are integrated rather than isolated, with strong connectivity to existing established settlements.

Yes

ID sylw: 104453

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Doug Wallace

The 20-minute home o work point is not realistic for many people. People often live in one place but their place of work can be an hour or more away.
Laudable ambition - but unrealistic.

Yes

ID sylw: 104494

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Neal Appleton

Space planning should also consider security.

Other

ID sylw: 104501

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Ira Goldsmith

Creating safe and attractive cycle and foot paths:
Strategic design principles in addition should include cycling, running, riding activities when planning sustainable and inclusive communities. These activities contribute to health, well-being, and environmental sustainability.
Including these activities in this section ensures developments include incorporating cycle and footpaths; promotes an active lifestyle and reduces car dependency; supports 20-minute neighbourhoods where amenities are accessible by foot or bike; ensures well-lit paths; balances development with natural spaces, ensuring biodiversity; and supports mental and physical well-being through physical activity and access to green open spaces.

Other

ID sylw: 104748

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Miss Ann Colley

This is only the case for developments proposed near to larger conurbations.

Yes

ID sylw: 104750

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs L Beeson

Clear Strategic Design Principles.

Yes

ID sylw: 104774

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Ian Dunning

This all sounds good but you're not going far enough.
Don't allow any low-density development.
Townhouses and apartments only. They can all be beautiful and will make the 15-minute city effortlessly achievable.

No

ID sylw: 104849

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Alice Burton

I don’t agree that building as many properties as possible enhances the area we live in.

Yes

ID sylw: 104859

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Radostin Radev

N/A

Yes

ID sylw: 104984

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Ms Susan Ingleby

Yes

Yes

ID sylw: 105777

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Wates Developments Ltd

Asiant : Savills

Wates Developments supports Draft Policy Direction 25 in principle and agree that the principles listed within the policy direction will contribute to achieving development which meets the design aspirations set out in Chapter 12 of the NPPF.

No

ID sylw: 106202

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Acres Land & Planning

These policies are lifted straight out of the Governments National Design Guidance and National Design Code Guidance and therefore don’t seem to add anything. They could therefore be included as background text.

Yes

ID sylw: 106212

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cala Homes (Cotswolds)

Asiant : Lichfields (London)

Cala broadly supports the aims of Draft Policy Direction 25. Cala recognises the importance of achieving an appropriate mix of development to provide for local need and a range of
densities, ensuring these are appropriate to the specific location and accounting for the need to maximise densities where possible.

Cala supports incorporating 20-minute neighbourhood principles into the design of new settlements where feasible. This helps maximise opportunities for active travel and ensures that parcels are appropriately designed for active travel across new settlements with links to opportunities such as employment. The concept needs to be considered at the outset of designing new settlements and a joined-up approach is required. Cala recognises the importance of this principle in delivering integrated development across Long Marston Airfield Garden Village to help ensure the appropriate mix of development, house types, local services, cycle and pedestrian networks can be provided for.

Yes

ID sylw: 106657

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Warwickshire Property and Development Group

Asiant : Framptons

We are supportive of the SWLP including a policy which sets out strategic design principles aimed at encouraging the delivery of the highest quality development across South Warwickshire. At present though Draft Policy Direction-25 simply out lines that strategic design principles will encompass. It is, therefore, uncertain what the practical implications of the design principles will be at the present time. It is consequently difficult to comment further on the suitability or otherwise of a strategic design policy given the lack of detail and we reserve the right to comment on this at a later stage.

Yes

ID sylw: 106900

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Historic England

The NPPF is clear that a strategic design policy should be grounded in an understanding and evaluation of each area’s defining characteristics (paragraph 132).
Historic England therefore welcomes this draft policy direction and is pleased to see that South Warwickshire’s strategic design principles will encompass reference to local character, the historic built environment, and landscape setting, as we advised in our response to the Issues & Options consultation.

Other

ID sylw: 106974

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bellway Homes

Asiant : Savills

Bellway is generally supportive of the principles set out in draft Policy Direction 25. However, the design principles set out are not justified unless they are to be considered on a site-by-site basis and incorporate flexibility to adapt to site specific circumstances. Design codes should not be overly prescriptive or restrictive where they are not
informed by detailed evidence and engagement with the Applicant team.
In addition the reference in the Policy Direction to ‘the principles of the 20-minute neighbourhood’ should be applied flexibly. At present the wording of the policy does not define what is considered to be ‘a reasonable walking distance of their homes’ or acknowledge potential implementation challenges.
It is noted that page 3 of the “Guide to existing housing densities in South Warwickshire” (January 2023), which forms part of the SWLP technical evidence, defines a 20-minute neighbourhood as “every-day services to be accessible within a 10-minute walk or cycle each way”. This is an unrealistic aim for larger strategic residential developments located adjacent to larger settlements, as well as developments within smaller settlements, where
infrastructure constraints and service provision limitations make such proximity difficult to achieve.
Accordingly any design measures must be justified with evidence (as required by paragraph 36 of the NPPF) and worded to allow for site-by-site consideration of requirements, rather than apply a blanket approach to new development.

Other

ID sylw: 107051

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: National Gas Transmission

Asiant : Avison Young

The increasing pressure for development is leading to more development sites being brought forward through the planning process on land that is crossed by National Gas Transmission infrastructure.

National Gas Transmission advocates the high standards of design and sustainable development forms promoted through national planning policy and understands that contemporary planning and urban design agenda require a creative approach to new development around underground gas transmission pipelines and other National Gas Transmission assets.

Therefore, to ensure that Draft Policy Direction – 25 – Strategic Design Principles is consistent with national policy we would request the inclusion of a policy strand such as:

• “Ensure that development takes a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach that respects
existing constraints including utilities located within sites.”

Other

ID sylw: 107274

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cotswolds National Landscape Board

In principle, the Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL) Board agrees with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction 25.
However, we do not think that the Draft Policy Direction has adequately addressed the issue of ‘local distinctiveness’.
Local distinctiveness is concerned with celebrating the unique characteristics of a place. The policy refers to creating ‘distinctive’ neighbourhoods. However, the word ‘distinctive’, in this context, could be interpreted as just meaning ‘different’, rather than being interpreted in the context of local distinctiveness.
Local distinctiveness is particularly important in the context of the CNL. This is because several of the CNL’s ‘special qualities’ relates to the local distinctiveness of the CNL as a whole. Relevant special qualities include:51
•The unifying character of the limestone geology - its visible presence in the landscape and use as a building material.
•Distinctive dry stone walls.
•Variations in the colour of the stone from one part of the National Landscape to another which add a vital element of local distinctiveness.
•Distinctive settlements, developed in the Cotswold vernacular with high architectural quality and integrity.
Local distinctiveness is also important in the context of the key features / characteristics of the individual landscape character types within the CNL, as detailed in the CNL Landscape Character Assessment52 and in the CNL Landscape Strategy & Guidelines53.
Local distinctiveness is explicitly addressed in Policy CE4 of the CNL Management Plan, which says that development proposals within the CNL should have regard to, be compatible with and reinforce the local distinctiveness of the CNL.54 The topic of local distinctiveness is also addressed in more detail in the Board’s report on Local Distinctiveness and Landscape Change.55
Recommendations
To address this issue, we recommend that Draft Policy Direction should include the following principle, under the heading of ‘Designing adaptable, diverse and flexible places’:
•Ensuring that development reflects the local distinctiveness of the built environment in the settlement, particularly with regards to its historic character, including building materials, vernacular architecture and settlement pattern and form.

Other

ID sylw: 107334

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Stratford-on-Avon District Social Inclusion Partnership

We agree with Draft Policy Direction-25 and note references to providing healthy and inclusive communities and references to the application of Health Impact Assessments within the South Warwickshire Local Plan Part 1 Preferred Options Draft Health Impact Assessment document. Whilst we agree with this the emphasis is on the design and building of the development and not the human resources required to catalyse those living in the new settlement, to ensure the establishment of a community, driven by the social capital of its residents. This is particularly a challenge with new settlements or large peripheral urban extensions, where a large number of new residents settle in a new home, in a settlement that lacks an identity or suffers from a lack of community activism. We believe that if possible the plan should place greater emphasis on the importance of this type of activity and its medium term (3-10 years) positive impact, and seek to gain developer contributions to enable this.

Yes

ID sylw: 107667

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cala Homes (Cotswolds)

Asiant : Lichfields (London)

Yes, Cala broadly supports the aims of Draft Policy Direction 25 to deliver safe, attractive places where people want to live, with emphasis given to the need for these places to respond to climate change and have regard to environmental sustainability. Cala also recognises the importance of achieving an appropriate mix of development to provide for local need and a range of densities, ensuring that any densities are appropriate to their specific location and account for the need to maximise densities where possible.
It is noted that the policy direction includes an objective to integrate the “20- minute neighbourhood” concept when considering factors such as street design and how settlements are laid out, and the impact this will have on people’s travel choices. Cala supports the incorporation of the 20-minute neighbourhood principles into the design of new settlements, where feasible. This is important to help maximise opportunities for active travel and will ensure that parcels of development are appropriately designed to ensure active travel across new settlements with links to opportunities such as employment on site.
The concept of a 20-minute neighbourhood needs to be considered at the outset in designing any new settlements to ensure that a joined-up approach is followed. It is a concept that Cala recognises is important in delivering integrated development across its Long Marston Airfield Garden Village (LMAGV) site to help ensure that the appropriate mix of development, house types, local services and both cycle and pedestrian networks can be provided for.

Other

ID sylw: 107690

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Pete Frteeman

There is little doubt that well-connected towns, settlements and neighbourhoods aid community cohesion, make shops and facilities more viable, encourage walking and cycling and reduce emissions. With regards to surveillance, this country is already impacted on an “Orwellian” scale and further similar government behaviour should not be encouraged ………. Why on earth would we want to be promoting policies to enhance land values? ……….. it’s already massively overpriced!

Other

ID sylw: 107750

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bellway Strategic Land

Asiant : Savills

Bellway is generally supportive of the principles set out in draft Policy Direction 25. However, the design principles set out are not justified unless they are to be considered on a site-by-site basis and incorporate flexibility to adapt to site specific circumstances.
In addition the reference in the Policy Direction to ‘the principles of the 20-minute neighbourhood’ should be applied flexibly. At present the wording of the policy does not define what is considered to be ‘a reasonable walking distance of their homes’ or acknowledge potential implementation challenges.
It is noted that page 3 of the “Guide to existing housing densities in South Warwickshire” (January 2023), which forms part of the SWLP technical evidence, defines a 20-minute neighbourhood as “every-day services to be accessible within a 10-minute walk or cycle each way”. This is an unrealistic aim for larger strategic residential developments located adjacent to larger settlements, as well as developments within smaller settlements, where infrastructure constraints and service provision limitations make such proximity difficult to achieve.
Accordingly, any design measures must be justified with evidence (as required by paragraph 36 of the NPPF) and worded to allow for site-by-site consideration of requirements, rather than apply a blanket approach to new development.

Other

ID sylw: 107845

Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Catesby Estates Ltd

Asiant : Pegasus Group

Catesby Estates Plc support high quality design. The overarching strategic design principles align with national policy.

The policy direction refers to 20-minute neighbourhoods, which the SA notes would result in positive impacts for many SA Objectives. The policy should clearly define the principles of such neighbourhoods. This may be based on the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)’s 20-minute Neighbourhoods guidance (March 2021). It will be necessary to clarify that meeting these principles may not be possible for all developments, particularly in more rural locations. 20-minute neighbourhoods are typically associated with urban areas - existing towns, urban extensions, and new settlements. It is easier to deliver facilities and services in denser areas. Higher densities may not be appropriate for all sites, particularly in rural settlements, as recognised in Paragraph 130 of the NPPF.

The TCPA’s guidance acknowledges the challenges of implementing 20-minute neighbourhoods in rural areas, noting two approaches:

• Focus on achieving a complete and compact 20-minute neighbourhood nearby such as a local market town, which residents in comparatively smaller settlements can travel to.
• Create a network of villages that collectively provide what most people need for their daily lives. This aligns with NPPF Paragraph 83, which states development in one village may support services in a village nearby.

NPPF Paragraph 82 states thousing developments in rural areas should meet local needs and Paragraph 83 that this should be located where it will enhance or maintain the vitality of communities. It will be important for the Councils to justify inclusion and promotion of 20-minute neighbourhoods in the next stage of the plan if this is to become a central part of this policy.

Yes

ID sylw: 107879

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Taylor Wimpey Strategic Land

Asiant : Turley

Taylor Wimpey supports the Draft Policy Direction in principle and emphasises the opportunity presented by the site at land north east of Hampton Magna, as demonstrated by Appendix 2 of this Statement. Further detail in respect of the site is submitted via the Call for Sites exercise being undertaken in parallel with the Regulation 18 consultation.

Yes

ID sylw: 107916

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Taylor Wimpey Strategic Land

Asiant : Turley

Taylor Wimpey supports the Draft Policy Direction in principle and emphasises the opportunity presented by the site at land east of Hockley Heath promoted by Taylor Wimpey, as demonstrated by Appendix 1of this Statement. Further detail in respect of the site is submitted via the Call for Sites exercise being undertaken in parallel with the Regulation 18 consultation.

Other

ID sylw: 107933

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Barwood Land

Asiant : Pegasus Group

Barwood Land support high quality design. The overarching strategic design principles align with national policy. The policy direction refers to 20-minute neighbourhoods, which the SA notes would result in positive impacts for many SA Objectives. The policy should define the principles of such neighbourhoods. This may be based on the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)’s 20-minute Neighbourhoods guidance (March 2021). Kenilworth, being a Priority 1 Area could deliver such a vision, including Barwood Land’s interests. Their development for flexible uses would contribute to the concept of 20-minute neighbourhoods as identified by the Site’s location in relation to services, amenities and facilities, referred to in the ‘Site’ section of this submission.

Other

ID sylw: 107967

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Rainier Developments Ltd

Asiant : Pegasus Group

Rainier Developments support high quality design. The overarching strategic design principles align with national policy.

The policy direction refers to 20-minute neighbourhoods, which the SA notes would result in positive impacts for many SA Objectives. The policy should clearly define the principles of such neighbourhoods. This may be based on the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)’s 20-minute Neighbourhoods guidance (March 2021). It will be necessary to clarify that meeting these principles may not be possible for all developments, particularly in more rural locations. 20-minute neighbourhoods are typically associated with urban areas - existing towns, urban extensions, and new settlements. It is easier to deliver facilities and services in denser areas. Higher densities may not be appropriate for all sites, particularly in rural settlements, as recognised in Paragraph 130 of the NPPF.

The TCPA’s guidance acknowledges the challenges of implementing 20-minute neighbourhoods in rural areas, noting two approaches:

• Focus on achieving a complete and compact 20-minute neighbourhood nearby such as a local market town, which residents in comparatively smaller settlements can travel to.
• Create a network of villages that collectively provide what most people need for their daily lives. This aligns with NPPF Paragraph 83, which states development in one village may support services in a village nearby.

NPPF Paragraph 82 states thousing developments in rural areas should meet local needs and Paragraph 83 that this should be located where it will enhance or maintain the vitality of communities. It will be important for the Councils to justify inclusion and promotion of 20-minute neighbourhoods in the next stage of the plan if this is to become a central part of this policy.