Preferred Options 2025

Summary

This Preferred Options consultation is the third stage in preparing the South Warwickshire Local Plan – a new Plan for Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Districts, following the Scoping and Call for Sites consultation in 2021 and Issues and Options consultation in 2023. The new Local Plan will affect the way we live, work, visit and play in South Warwickshire to 2050. As well as working collaboratively on this Plan, both Councils are also preparing other plans on specific topics relevant to their District. Those plans are entirely separate to this South Warwickshire Local Plan.

It is proposed that this Part 1 of the South Warwickshire Local Plan will set out the overall strategy for the pattern, scale and design quality of places within South Warwickshire, and make sufficient provision for housing, employment, retail, leisure and other commercial development, along with infrastructure, community facilities, conservation and enhancement of the natural, built and historic environment and planning measures to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. Primarily, the Local Plan sets out how we will grow the South Warwickshire economy and create jobs through delivery of the net zero carbon agenda. It will ensure that the necessary infrastructure and the right type and number of homes are delivered to support the level of jobs we want to see across South Warwickshire to 2050.

The adoption of this overarching Part 1 would then enable other 'Part 2' planning policy documents to come forward and set out detailed policies for specific areas, neighbourhoods or types of development. This could include allocating sites and the provision of infrastructure at a local level, establishing design principles and setting out other more detailed planning policies.