No

ID sylw: 95344

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

Connectivity: development of the local road network and connecting to the SRN render this site financially and environmentally non-sustainable. Hatton Station and the rail service available could not and would not significantly reduce private car usage.

Countryside and the Canal Conservation Area: provide an important and much used recreational resource for residents of nearby towns with associated health benefits. This land contributes valuable 'green belt' separating Warwick/Leamington from the West Midlands.
Warwick District has a similar population to the much larger Stratford District and is already relatively congested.
Development should be more evenly distributed.

Additional info summarised from emailed submission 03/03/2025:

We have had unprecedented attendance at meetings arranged to inform residents of the plan, and they are
overwhelmingly opposed to the selection of Site B1.

South Warwickshire does not have any development requirements. The population is stable and there is low
unemployment. This site is topographically varied, and while the overall flood risk may be low, significant flooding has been experienced to the north-east and north central areas of the site. The site is in the Green Belt, and is important in preventing the coalescence of Warwick/Leamington and the West Midland conurbations. This increase in the population of South Warwickshire will require a new District General Hospital, with A&E facilities. There will be a population – infrastructure lag placing an increased burden on the existing provision which is already at capacity. Road connectivity is poor. It is not possible to see how either road or rail connectivity could be augmented to serve a community of this size.

A Housing Needs Survey carried out in 2020 by the Warwickshire Rural Community Council showed a need for 3 dwellings, since when 150 have been/are being built in the Parish.

Any large scale commercial development would however increase the vehicle movements on and around the site as many, probably most employees would live elsewhere.

As 50,000 houses at, say, 50 tonnes per house = 2.5m tonnes Co2, plus that released in the construction of roads, schools and other infrastructure, this aspiration falls somewhere short of realistic, as noted in the Sustainability Assessment.

It is not conceivable that the beauty of South Warwickshire can be enhanced by this scale of development, however well designed.

The canal corridor, lanes and footpaths in and around Hatton are a valuable and much used resource providing the health benefit of exercise, recreation and access to nature and the countryside.

While this site may comply with the employment aims of ‘Option 4’ it does not comply with the transport requirements. Its proximity to Hatton Station is irrelevant. It is not ‘sustainable’ and we believe that this will be the conclusion of the Planning Inspectorate.

Other

ID sylw: 95354

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

The 40+% increase in the population of South Warwickshire will require a new District General Hospital with A&E facilities.
This should logically situated between the existing - Warwick, Banbury and Cheltenham, and this would be the appropriate site

Other

ID sylw: 95364

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

Proximity to the M40 and Leamington Railway station make this, together with site X2 the best connected sites

Other

ID sylw: 95372

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

Proximity to the M40 and Leamington Rail station make this, together with Site X1 the best connected.

No

ID sylw: 95481

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

Connectivity - either via Stanks Junction to the A46 - already at capacity according to the Transport Report, or via a new junction on the A46 which would be the 4th within 6k
Loss of important Green Belt protecting Warwick and the amenity and health benefit of access to this open countryside for local residents.
If site B1 were also selected, the combined impact on congestion, water and power infrastructure, pollution and air quality, and environment and biodiversity would not be sustainable

Additional info from emailed rep 03/03/2025:

This 169Ha site, in the green belt would, if developed for commercial purposes, join the built-up urban spread of Warwick/Leamington with Hatton Park, and if also developed, the New Town at Hatton. This would contravene four of the five stated purposes of the Green Belt.

As with Site B1, development of the site would deprive residents of Warwick and Leamington the Health enhancing benefit of leisure. exercise and access to nature and the countryside.

Arguments in relation to Sustainability, Transport and other Infrastructure, Biodiversity and Environmental damage and maintaining the beauty of South Warwickshire stated above in connection with Site B1 apply equally to this site.

No

ID sylw: 95500

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

South Warwickshire itself does not have 'Development Requirements', and this requirement is externally driven.

The difference between the HEDNA total (41,975, 41% approval in the I&O consultation) and the revised NPPF Standard Calculation (54,700) is unexplained, disproportionate and unacceptable, and should be challenged by the SW district councils.

Yes

ID sylw: 95510

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

re Green Belt locations...........limited affordable Housing: A Housing needs Survey , 2020 carried out by WRRC showed the need for 3 dwellings in Hatton Parish. Since then 150 have been/are being built.
Otherwise, infill development that supports local communities is welcome.

Other

ID sylw: 95514

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

Landowners and building contractors will press for the release of greenfield sites where their financial gain is maximised.

This pressure must be resisted in favour of a full and determined programme of urban regeneration for which there is yet little evidence.

Yes

ID sylw: 96419

Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

Agree in principle, however:
The economics of settlement construction will result in the LPA coming under pressure from contractors to allow home occupancy to precede the provision of essential infrastructure.
This would result in overloading schools, medical facilities, emergency services as well as transport and other infrastructure to the detriment of new, as well as existing residents.
Means to resist such pressure must be included in the final policy.

Other

ID sylw: 96480

Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hatton Parish Council

The formulaic approach of the Arup Green Belt Review Stage 1 does not properly identify the particular value of the rural area west of Warwick in relation to the amenity it provides for the residents of Warwick/Leamington.

Given the proportion of green belt land across the combined districts, there can be no question of the 'Special Circumstances' required for land to be removed from it for large scale development being fulfilled.

Small scale development to support and expand existing communities may well be justified in some circumstances.