Yes

ID sylw: 107642

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hampton Lucy Parish Council

Major Investment Sites

University of Warwick Wellesbourne Campus

HLPC SUPPORTS this proposal SUBJECT TO THE COMMENTS BELOW

o The development should be designed to ensure the village of Charlecote remains as a distinct and separate settlement and does not become a built-up satellite of Wellesbourne. This can be achieved by protective rural swathes of land held in perpetuity as a divide between the development and the village.

o A satisfactory and sustainable traffic management plan must be put in place to ensure the fragile infrastructure serving both the villages of Charlecote and Hampton Lucy are not impacted by increased heavy traffic ‘rat-running’ through the village which the development would otherwise would likely cause. This is already an issue without any further development.

In particular, the listed single-track iron bridge running between Hampton Lucy and Charlecote needs to be protected as provided for in Policy IN1 of HLPC’s Neighbourhood Plan.

Access and egress to the site should be only via the A429 Wellesbourne Road.

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: 107644

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hampton Lucy Parish Council

SG19 – East of Stratford (Tiddington)

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: 107645

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Hampton Lucy Parish Council

X1 – Land south of Leamington Spa/north of Wellesbourne east of Barford:

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.