Q-E8.1: Do you agree that the existing employment allocations, including the revisions to Atherstone Airfield, should be carried over into the SWLP?
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Applicants looking to change the use of a building will already have financial pressures or changes in circumstances that require such a change. Provided the application is compliant with planning policy it is not for the Council to make assessments of relative financial prospects and risks of any proposal. This is the sole reserve of the applicant who carries all the financial risk, not the Council. Applications should be tested against planning policy. A sustainable business takes into account may factors, this can be highly sensitive to the individuals involved, the size and the type of business. Not to mention wider market changes such as Brexit or the recent energy price crisis. So it would be improper to provide an exclusive list of tests. That being said, there are several items that should be given very little weight which include local public transport as not business could rely on public transport in order to run a business.
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In the event that a local pub in a village becomes financially unviable the opportunity for residents to come together to purchase and run the pub for the good of the village should be given serious consideration, rather than the pub owner suggesting that the pub has been marketed without interest in order to get a change of use for the building to become a residential property.
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A note of caution regarding sustainability of site 5 developments at Wellesbourne Warwick University Campus and Airfield. The wide flat floor of the Avon Valley south of Warwick, in the Wellesbourne area, is a tempting place to consider development, however it should be noted that you are building on shallow sand and gravel deposits classified by the Environment Agency as a Secondary A Aquifer. These are layers capable of supporting water supplies at a local rather forming an important source of base flow to the River Avon. Sites are in Mineral Protection Zone. The bedrock beneath the site, the Mercia Mudstone, is designated as a Secondary B Aquifer and is used for supplying public water supplies to the area from Severn Trent boreholes. To ensure the sites are sustainable for employment a HYDROGEOLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT should be carried out. So far this has not been done.
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We recommend the plan contains robust policy which supports and protects valued social and community uses across South Warwickshire including its cultural facilities such as its theatres. We suggest this includes a requirement to demonstrate lack of need for the facility among the local community and robust evidence of marketing utilising relevant local and national agents at an asking price or rent appropriate to condition and existing use without development potential. This should include evidence that a facility could not be made to be viable under alternative ownership models such as community/voluntary operation rather than on a purely commercial basis.
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Appropriate marketing for business, commercial or community use for at least 12 months
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See Alcester Neighbourhood Development Plan- policies: EC1 Development within the Town Centre EC4 Employment land changes of use an mixed use development
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100ha at GLH to enable expansion of JLR and 4.5ha for Aston Martin Lagonda. Information from JLR, Aston Martin with changes after covid and financial downturn makes it strongly apparent that this development would not be required. Further development of that area should not encroach on Gaydon village and seek to stay on the North East of the B4100.
Ensure that all steps have been taken to look at the feasibility and reason for change.