No

ID sylw: 107552

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Charlecote Parish Council

This area lacks essential infrastructure for housing development, including rail and public transport connectivity, primary school spaces, nearby secondary schools, and local medical facilities which can take new patients.

The area is served by only two major roads – the A429 Warwick Road and B4086 Stratford Road. Both are already heavily impacted by traffic from new housing in Wellesbourne and Tiddington, congestion from visitors to the Saturday market, and likely impacts of the proposed University of Warwick expansion (an increase to some 4,000 people employed/studying on site). Additional pressures would result from Wellesbourne Airfield development and the proposed quarry near Barford. The area is already experiencing overdevelopment.

Tourism is crucial to Stratford-upon-Avon's economy. Such significant growth within a few miles of Stratford-upon-Avon would detract from the town’s status as a tourist destination. Additional congestion would make access to Stratford more challenging for visitors.

Overdevelopment would cause loss of Best and Most Versatile Land, and significant harm to landscape character, irreversibly altering the rural gateways to Stratford-upon-Avon, Charlecote and Hampton Lucy.

Charlecote is home to the historic Charlecote Park and House, a Grade I Listed Building & Parkland and one of the West Midlands' most visited National Trust properties, attracting approximately 250,000 visitors annually. Housing development adjacent to or nearby Charlecote’s historic gateway and significant heritage asset cannot be supported. Such development would be contrary to Paragraphs 189 to 208 of the NPPF, Core Strategy CS8, and policies protecting the historic and rural character of the area.

No

ID sylw: 107624

Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Stratford-upon-Avon Town Transport Group

SG15/SG16 - Wellesbourne Group
While these are not considered as a new settlement, the potential agglomeration size
means that they may function in a similar way. With no fast connectivity such as rail, and
with buses providing the only viable public transport to Stratford-upon-Avon, the effects on
traffic in the town and approaches would be untenable. TTG do not support these locations
without a proper traffic assessment and planned infrastructure improvements in advance of
development.

No

ID sylw: 107643

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hampton Lucy Parish Council

SG15 – North Wellesbourne (Hampton Lucy and Charlecote):

HLPC OBJECTS to the above proposed polices and options for the following reasons

o These areas are lacking in the essential elements necessary for development of housing being rail and other transport connectivity, primary schools with spaces for additional pupils, secondary schools within an easy distance and local medical facilities with the ability to take on new patients.

o They are served by only one major road – the A429, Wellesbourne Road – already heavily impacted by traffic to and from new housing developments in Tiddington, those travelling to the Saturday market with these areas all also likely to be further congested by the implementation of the proposed University of Warwick expansion (an increase to some 4,000 people employed/studying there from a few hundred) and the Wellesbourne Airfield development. The proposed quarry development near Barford would also increase traffic within these areas. There is already over development within these option areas.

o Tourism is of vital importance to the economy of the town of Stratford upon Avon with its theatres, historic heritage and as a valuable source of employment. All the above areas are within a few miles of Stratford upon Avon and such development would detract from its importance as a centre of tourism and lead to extra congestion on roads making it more challenging for visitors to access the town.

o Such over-development would cause significant harm to the character of the landscape changing irreversibly the rural gateways Stratford upon Avon and both Hampton Lucy with its seventeen listed buildings and Charlecote.

Particularly, sitting within the small rural village of Charlecote is the listed Charlecote House with its Park, being one of the most visited National Trust properties in the West Midlands having had just under 240,000 visitors in 2023.

Any housing development adjacent to or in the vicinity of the gateway to, and the siting of, such an important heritage asset scannot be supported. Such would be contrary to Paragraphs 189 to 208 of the NPPF, Core Strategy CS8 and Policy BE1 of HLPC’s Neighbourhood Plan.

We are the custodians of such heritage assets for future generations and must protect them.

No

ID sylw: 108029

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Rebecca Loades

Large-scale housing developments in South Wellesbourne will lead to habitat destruction, fragmentation of wildlife corridors, and long-term ecological damage. The environmental impact of the development in area SG15 is entirely unacceptable, particularly when more suitable brownfield sites exist. Newbold Pacey will be suffocated.
The local area of Wellesbourne does not have the infrastructure to support a large influx of new residents. The highstreet is limited, roads are already congested, public transport is minimal, and essential services area already stretched. Approving this development would put undue strain on these resources, leading to a decline in the quality of life for both existing and future residents. I would particularly ask you to consider the road from Wellesbourne (B4087), through Newbold Pacey to the M40.
The loss of agricultural land also undermines local food security and self-sufficiency, an increasingly critical issue in modern times, especially with what is currently occuring in international politics and affairs. Please consider working with local farmers to encourage to maintain their farms and continue to provide local produce rather than leasing them for solar farms.
Please also consider policing of these new development areas. A rapid increase in housing will unavoidably bring an increase in anti-social behaviour.
Solar Farms
While the need for renewable energy is undeniable, the placement of this industrial-scale development in a conservation area (particularly South Wellesbourne) is wholly inappropriate and presents serious and irreversible harm to the landscape, biodiversity, and local heritage.
The potential proposed sites in South Wellesbourne support a diverse range of wildlife, including legally protected species such as birds, bats, and pollinators. The removal of established habitats, potential soil degradation, and disruption of local ecosystems would have lasting consequences.
Solar farms should be sited on brownfield or low-grade agricultural land, not in protected conservation areas like South Wellesbourne.

No

ID sylw: 108418

Derbyniwyd: 18/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Julian Rawstorne

Inclusion of SGL15 in this category should be withdrawn. It should not be allocated as an SGL
.Inclusion of SGL15 is contrary to the Wellesbourne Neighbourhood plan of 2021-23 where the whole village was consulted and were in favour of" the Brook" becoming the full extent of northerly development for Wellesbourne.
The Rebus Report in its Executive summary at E26states that
"North of Wellesbourne SGL is likely to be the worst performing option where a large number of negative impacts have been identified". The Summary table 5{2)at page 59 of the preferred options identifies five of them
The Joseph Arch Bridle track funnels through the middle of SGL15 and is used constantly by numerous residents and other ramblers on a regular basis for restoration and maintenance of their health and wellbeing .Development of SGL15 would certainly transform this amenity of open countryside into a metropolitan suburb. Stratford District Council in its policy documents professes to put the health and wellbeing of its residents first.