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Strategic Growth Location SG21 Question
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 88642
Derbyniwyd: 17/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Jerry Corless
N/A
Yes
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ID sylw: 88649
Derbyniwyd: 17/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Ida Marjorie Brown
Location ok but question infrastructure links.
No
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ID sylw: 88771
Derbyniwyd: 17/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Bruce Park
This site should not be considered due to:
- very poor transport links, no railway station, no planned major highway development or upgrade to A46 planned
- Significant distance to proposed major investment sites.
- This is a green field site not a brown field site
- designated special landscape area
- Development undermines strategy set out in Alcester Neighbourhood Development Plan 2021
- fundamentally change Alcester beyond recognition due to sudden rapid growth of population
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 88989
Derbyniwyd: 19/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Craig Weale
There is no requirement for this without any proper additional infrastructure especially on a green-field site which will fundamentally ruin the town.
No
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ID sylw: 88994
Derbyniwyd: 19/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Alcester Civic Society
A development of this enormity is not sustainable representing a 100% increase in the population, given an average of 2.5 residents per property. It would be like building a second Town of Alcester as a mirror of the existing Town to the west of the A435.
The 350 homes built on the new Alcester Park Estate did not come with any additions to the infrastructure for the Town. The doubling of the population would in effect need a new 'Town Centre' to sustain that level of increase in population as the existing centre will be swamped.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 89307
Derbyniwyd: 19/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr O Johnson
Area is at risk of flooding and limited access/infrastructure.
No
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ID sylw: 89517
Derbyniwyd: 20/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Jackie Carr-Smith
The SG21 Alcester area is on green belt land and should be protected countryside. Such a large area of development could cause surface water run off into the nearby River Arrow and cause flooding to the area.
No
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ID sylw: 89530
Derbyniwyd: 20/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Miss Emily Carleton
This is green belt! Don't build here!
No
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ID sylw: 90092
Derbyniwyd: 22/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Catherine Hewson
River arrow LWS and Coldcomfort Wood PLWS
Yes
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ID sylw: 90402
Derbyniwyd: 23/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Dr Louise Stewart
Adds to existing well established infrastructure and as a large town, it already provides employment with significant further opportunity for expansion. Business owners do not want to come to a brand new site with no facilities, it is too risky for them in an already challenging economy.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 90615
Derbyniwyd: 24/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Miss Katheryn Clayton Bartlett
The proposed SG21 - Alcester Group strategic growth consideration should be opposed due to its negative impact on the local area, infrastructure, and environment. The location is unsuitable for further housing development, as it would place new homes next to a major motorway, exposing residents to excessive noise pollution and worsening traffic congestion on already strained roads. This expansion would overburden local services, reduce residents’ quality of life, and destroy valuable green space, harming the town’s character. Sustainable growth should prioritise community needs, not unchecked expansion. Residents must take a stand to protect Alcester’s roads, resources, and heritage.
Other
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 91026
Derbyniwyd: 25/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Julian Brown
Partial agreement. Location is logical given its access to the A435 and links to A46. 50% development more appropriate.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 91047
Derbyniwyd: 25/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Patryk Garczarczyk
The proposed SG21 - Alcester Group strategic growth consideration is deeply concerning due to its detrimental impact on the local area. The chosen location is entirely unsuitable, placing new homes right next to a busy motorway, subjecting future residents to constant noise pollution. Increased traffic will put even more strain on already overburdened roads, worsening congestion and safety risks. Additionally, the destruction of green space will damage the environment and alter the character of the town. Sustainable, well-planned development should come first, not reckless expansion. It’s vital that residents oppose this proposal to protect Alcester’s infrastructure and community.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 91094
Derbyniwyd: 25/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Nicole Park
The proposed housing development is disproportionately large compared with the existing size of Arrow and Alcester. It is on a greenfield site and will both destroy the countryside and dramatically alter the character of the area, swamping the environs and available services of this historic market town. With very limited public transport and no rail link in Alcester, the roads will not be able to cope with the enormous and inevitable increase in traffic. The knock on increase in traffic noise and pollution will further impact the neighbourhood and environment.
No
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ID sylw: 91396
Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Miss Victoria Sturdy
No thought into local environment impact and flooding defences. The town has no infrastructure to support this building and larger developments will be catastrophic to the town.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 91438
Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Ms Lucia Restall Orr
The proposal will affect the following Local Wildlife Sites: River arrow LWS and Coldcomfort Wood PLWS
No
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ID sylw: 91501
Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Beth Palmer
further unnecessary encroachment on green belt
Yes
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ID sylw: 91951
Derbyniwyd: 27/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr James OShea
This is a suitable and sustainable growth location with good and close highway infrastructure
Other
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ID sylw: 92065
Derbyniwyd: 27/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Neil Edden
Whilst its inclusion makes sense from an existing, surrounding road infrastructure and massing perspective, careful consideration should be given to traffic that the site would generate on the already overburdened A435 and its potential cumulative impact on site SG22 as there are no rail links nearby and less than substantial employment for potential residents in the area, so housing would be likely occupied by people who work in other areas and will travel and be delivered to by road only.
No
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ID sylw: 92164
Derbyniwyd: 27/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Alison Adams
The area is prone to flooding so removing more green field sites will only impact this further. There are not enough services in the infrastructure including schools, doctors etc.. you need to be mindful of the existing community and the risk and impact it will have. Building on green belt land should not be allowed, it's designated green belt for a reason! If these houses are required build them in areas that are not at risk of flooding. Man made defences do not work and only move the issue further down stream
Yes
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ID sylw: 92321
Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025
Ymatebydd: Harbury Parish Council
the road connections are good, but the lack of rail means this should be a modest development
No
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ID sylw: 92766
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Bruce Park
this development would change Alcester forever. Settlement would be split in two.
- increase in traffic
- no train station
- lack of schooling, work opportunities
- lowest scoring of all strategic growth locations for sustainability
- entire development in green belt
- 17% site in flood zones 1 and 2
-site includes a watercourse for Alcester
-1000’s of migratory geese and other birds use the reservoir when preparing to migrate
- doesn’t meet 20 min town principle
- brings arrow and Alcester into 1 community with no buffer
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 92916
Derbyniwyd: 01/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Ed Molloy
Close to Alcester
No
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ID sylw: 93450
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Bernard Davis
Area is green belt and there are no "exceptional circumstances"
Yes
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ID sylw: 93662
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Christopher Bennett
This site is a convenient extension to the already dense area of housing and thriving town of Alcester. I believe this is one of the most desirable sites for housing development in the proposed plan. It is in direct proximity to all the existing community services and facilities available there and feels appropriate in size to the existing settlement. The existing road network provided by the A46 and A422/A435 gives this site an additional important and clear advantage.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93876
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Carina Taylor
There is no train line in Alcester, everyone is reliant on a car as the public transport is so poor. The roads are congested and dangerous, how many deaths on the A46 between Alcester and Stratford-too many!
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 93900
Derbyniwyd: 02/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Carina Taylor
The new development would be cut off from Alcester due to the A435 dual carriage way, how would children walk to school.
Parents would have to drive, therefore increasing the traffic which is already very congested in Alcester, look at the Birmingham Road , Kinwarton and St Faiths Road in the morning and afternoon. The town carpark is always full and in Waitrose you can only park for 90 minutes.
The schools are at full capacity, 407 have applied for 150 places at Alcester Academy, what will happen to those from the surrounding villages, where will they go to school?
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94263
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr Jon Redhead
This would facilitate encroachment and destruction Green Belt Land, which must not be prioritised.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94354
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mr David Moulson
Having lived near the proposed development site for 45 years, I have several concerns. Firstly, Area SG21 is within the Greenbelt, which the government pledged to protect. Secondly, building on productive agricultural land is unwise, especially as climate change makes farming increasingly challenging. The area is also rich in wildlife, hosting many threatened species. Access issues would arise due to inadequate infrastructure, and the proposed housing would overwhelm local amenities and drainage systems. Lastly, archaeological investigations are necessary, given the area's historical significance. Therefore, this land should not be developed.
No
Preferred Options 2025
ID sylw: 94451
Derbyniwyd: 03/03/2025
Ymatebydd: Mrs Belinda Brown
This location is made up entirely of greenbelt land and should therefore be protected from development. No homes should be being built on green belt land as a part of this SWLP, when there are other sites available!