Yes

ID sylw: 108330

Derbyniwyd: 23/06/2025

Ymatebydd: Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield

Asiant : Gladman Developments

Chapter 3 of the consultation document considers the vision and strategic objectives of the SWLP. We remain supportive in principle of the draft vision and strategic objectives of the SWLP, which together seek to deliver socially, economically and environmentally sustainable growth.

The acknowledgment of the important role jobs and economic growth plays in delivering sustainable
development is welcome. So too is the recognition for the need to develop and accommodate job opportunities that build upon the strong and diverse economy within Strategic Objective 4.

We thus consider the draft vision and strategic objectives to be appropriate. As part of the planmaking process, we would again, however, recommend that the Councils explore opportunities to link the vision and strategic objectives to tangible outcomes (e.g., delivery targets) to provide added clarity and meaning by which they can be measured.

Yes

ID sylw: 108332

Derbyniwyd: 23/06/2025

Ymatebydd: Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield

Asiant : Gladman Developments

We support the recognition that airfields can be particularly suitable for redevelopment for employment use, due to their large scale, and are content with the inclusion of a policy identifying airfields suitable for employment development. The identification of Wellesbourne Airfield is endorsed and recognises the conclusions of the South Warwickshire Employment Land Study 2024 that the site is suitable for partial redevelopment.

The draft policy direction proposes to safeguard the aviation function of Wellesbourne Airfield in line with existing Area Policy AS.9 in the adopted Core Strategy. It also acknowledges proposals to partially repurpose the site to include employment uses and the findings of the Employment Study (2024) noted above. Gladman’s live planning application for Wellesbourne Airfield demonstrates that these objectives can be simultaneously achieved.

Gladman also consider a more simplistic and effective policy approach would be to designate two individual and independent policies that cover the airfield and the proposed employment area separately, following the boundaries set out within the live planning application (24/02333/OUT).

Yes

ID sylw: 108359

Derbyniwyd: 23/06/2025

Ymatebydd: Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield

Asiant : Gladman Developments

We remain of the view that the broad geographical extent of the Core Opportunity Area has been correctly identified.

Furthermore, the Council’s identification of the Wellesbourne area, and more specifically, of Wellesbourne Airfield and the University of Warwick’s Wellesbourne Campus as major investment sites within the Core Opportunity Area is endorsed. To reflect the status of Wellesbourne Airfield as a Major Investment Site, we would suggest that the Councils amend future iterations of ‘Figure 10 – Core Opportunity Area’ to include reference to the airfield in the plan’s key.

We are in broad agreement with the principles of Draft Policy Direction 13 and 14 and are content for the Part 1 SWLP to include a policy which looks to direct employment growth to the Core Opportunity Area as it is arguably the most accessible and sustainable geographical area for major employment development to occur.

Yes

ID sylw: 108360

Derbyniwyd: 23/06/2025

Ymatebydd: Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield

Asiant : Gladman Developments

We are in broad agreement with the principles of Draft Policy Direction 13 and 14 and are content for
the Part 1 SWLP to include a policy which looks to direct employment growth to the Core Opportunity
Area as it is arguably the most accessible and sustainable geographical area for major employment
development to occur. Any such policies relating to the Core Opportunity Area and specific Major Investment Sites must be broadly aligned to each other and should provide clarity and specificity as to what is sought within the broader Core Opportunity Area and on the Major Investment Sites, whilst ensuring a degree of flexibility to allow sites that are included within these designations to adapt to changes in spatial, economic, transport and infrastructure circumstances.

We feel it would be beneficial for the SWLP to include a policy relating to additional economic growth at the Major Investment Sites. Any identification in policy of the specific employment uses considered permittable at the Major
Investment Sites must be reflective and relevant to each individual site.

It is also noted that an integral relationship between Wellesbourne Airfield and the University of Warwick is desired. Whilst we would endorse this strategic approach and recognise the synergies between the sites, it is important for any policies to reflect both sites as individual schemes that can and are able to be brought forward independently. This is demonstrated by the live planning application on Wellesbourne Airfield (24/02333/OUT).