On behalf of our client Mapeley Gamma Acquisition Co (4) Limited (acting by its Joint LPA Receivers Fergus Jack & Bryn Williams) we are instructed to submit representations to the Warwick Local Plan, Pre-Submission Draft consultation. The representations follow comments made to the Revised Development Strategy consultation held in July 2013.

As owners of land and property within Warwick District, our client has an interest in the future development strategy and is seeking to ensure that the Local Plan contains sufficient policy flexibility to facilitate the release of employment land, which no longer serves its function.

In this respect, our client supports the introduction of Policy EC3 (Protecting Employment Land and Buildings). In accordance with the requirements of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) we agree that Policy EC3 represents a sound and justified policy for proposals affecting existing employment sites and will provide sufficient flexibility to facilitate the release of employment sites (over and above those areas currently identified) which during the plan period no longer continue to meet business needs.

We trust that these comments will be given due consideration and incorporated into the publication version of the Local Plan.