Yes

Representation ID: 86078

Received: 12/01/2025

Respondent: Sandy McCaskie

N/A

No

Representation ID: 86242

Received: 17/01/2025

Respondent: Mr Mark Brightburn

Town Centres are evolving fast post pandemic. Leamington Town Centre in particular now has a new Vision and a Transformation Board overseeing changes as the centre moves from primarily retail to a broader mix of uses and new ways to utilise its streets and spaces. New housing and employment, along with health and education should be part of this new town centre mix. The existing town centre local plan map therefore needs updating to reflect and support this transformation process with new town centre policies that align with this new Vision.

No

Representation ID: 86668

Received: 29/01/2025

Respondent: Mr Peter Bridgewater

The focus on town centres and local centres as shopping areas is misguided. To be vibrant and sustainable, town centres need to create spaces where people can live, work and socialise all within walking (or cycling) distance. This may well mean that we need to accept that people are buying goods online and current Retail areas need to diversify into a broader understanding of a town centre. This will include:
- Small Live/Work units,
- Pubs, cafes
- Small Offices
- Services

No

Representation ID: 86919

Received: 31/01/2025

Respondent: Mr Arthur Hogan-Fleming

The level of dereliction in Stratford-upon-Avon town centre indicates the ongoing trend and more will follow. Parking costs, parking payment machines not working/phone lines unanswered, a council punishment culture against motorists and the outrageous high level of rates will further kill off town centre shopping in favour of retail parks (and even they will struggle)/internet. Time to realise this sort of area under these conditions has no future at all re any kind of reasonable shopping area.

No

Representation ID: 87022

Received: 02/02/2025

Respondent: S Gardner

There is not a strong enough vision for what we want our town centres to be… the last strategies of appealing to big brands has now started to fail, the units available are too big for many smaller businesses, rents and rates. Plus access costs (parking, etc) are too high. Therefore, more attention needs to be given to multipurpose centres.

Yes

Representation ID: 87232

Received: 06/02/2025

Respondent: Cllr Oliver Jacques

I support the creation of a Primary Shopping Area for Warwick as it will boost the local Town economy by creating an attractive low-traffic, safe and friendly environment, linking the town centre with Smith Street shops. An out of town Park & Ride would be ideal to bring visitors in from further afield, yet also stopping locally as an effective alternative to the car for local residents. Park and Ride would be a more sustainable and successful means of managing (greater) visitor numbers to key attractions such as Warwick Castle, and for key festivals such as the Warwick Folk Festival.

Yes

Representation ID: 87398

Received: 08/02/2025

Respondent: Cllr Andrew Day

None

Yes

Representation ID: 87579

Received: 09/02/2025

Respondent: mrs susan morris

I agree

No

Representation ID: 87665

Received: 09/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Michael Enness

I don't understand the purpose of these marked areas. It talks about protecting retail centers, but high street shopping is dying. How does drawing a line around the dying area help it?

No

Representation ID: 88101

Received: 13/02/2025

Respondent: J Hall

There is lack of access and parking, heavy traffic throughout the day within the main Warwick streets. Car Parks stand empty for years. The town centre should be pedestrianised as Solihull was years ago.

No

Representation ID: 88538

Received: 16/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Chris Allen

The policy doesn't appear to cater for the knock-on effect when new developments (including employment / retail land) are developed in close proximity to the identified town centers. Cheaper rents and an abundance of free parking in the outskirts will drive businesses to abandon these town centers - as is the case when 'big box' superstores / supermarkets open on the UK's ring roads.

Other

Representation ID: 88697

Received: 17/02/2025

Respondent: Mrs Ida Marjorie Brown

I support the draft policy direction for Town Centres but i believe you contradict your policy for the "local centres". The policy states the boundaries for the local centres are considered to be adequate across all centres. Yet, this SWLP plan is seeking to expand or extend all of the local centre boundaries but "bolt-on" for strategic growth. Highly contradictory and confusing policy. As i have expressed some expansion of local centres given their strategic location to good infrastructure is ok but not all local centres. Revise this policy.

Yes

Representation ID: 88825

Received: 18/02/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sidney Syson

People tell me that the biggest thing that affects where they choose to shop is the parking. Leamington currently loses out because of the non-functioning state of the street parking meters.

Yes

Representation ID: 89045

Received: 19/02/2025

Respondent: Stratford upon Avon District Council

we must do more to market our town centres to new investors. We must actively work to eliminate empty properties particularly those empty for more than 12 months. Where practical we should restrict car access to shopping streets.

No

Representation ID: 89255

Received: 19/02/2025

Respondent: Jon Knight

I think we need to realise that town centres are changing, retail is over provisioned and online shopping isn't going away. We need to be able to reuse existing town centre buildings for new, potentially non-retail uses. For example there are shops in Stratford that have laid empty for many years (Paperway, BHS, Debenhams) that could be repurposed as housing or community spaces. Imaginative uses like this should be encouraged by the SWLP rather than setting town centres in aspic.

Yes

Representation ID: 89412

Received: 20/02/2025

Respondent: Amanda Knight

nil

Other

Representation ID: 89595

Received: 20/02/2025

Respondent: L B

Priority must be given to finding a solution to fill the empty shops in the town centres. Some landlords seem to be not interested in their buildings being used.

No

Representation ID: 89945

Received: 22/02/2025

Respondent: Mr RICHARD TAULBUT

This is fundamentally contradictory. It's not possible to 'support changing town centres' and only permit uses that maintain their character.

No

Representation ID: 90298

Received: 23/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Andrew Edwards

Warwick town centre has not changed in the 30 years I have lived here, and remains bland, small and boring - the capital of charity shops. Planners should be making it more attractive. Abusive parking fees do not help, nor does the gridlocked traffic that further development will bring.
Your starting premise is incorrect.
A decent hotel would be a smart move to attract visiting business and itinerant consultants with spendable resources, but pricing business out and making it physically inaccessible will not help. This almost makes the town centre a brownfield site.

No

Representation ID: 90493

Received: 23/02/2025

Respondent: Jayne Jones

reference only to large towns.
No reference to small towns, where proposals will double population and completely change town/character SG17

Yes

Representation ID: 90622

Received: 24/02/2025

Respondent: Warwick Town Council

Added pressure on traffic plan for Warwick town centre when residents need to travel from one side of town to the other and whenever there are frequent delays on the A46.
Town centre air quality affected negatively, will worsen as a consequence.
Support a Primary Shopping Area for Warwick as it will boost the local economy and help create an attractive low-traffic, safe, friendly environment, linking the town centre with Smith Street shops.
Out-of-town Park & Ride would be ideal to bring visitors from further afield, yet also stopping locally as an effective alternative to the car for local residents.

Yes

Representation ID: 91170

Received: 25/02/2025

Respondent: Radford Semele Parish Council

The importance of protecting and enhancing town centres as service and leisure
destinations for the whole area is supported. This should include a presumption against any
further proliferation of large out of town retail sites. The existing out of town sites
increasingly generate traffic congestion both on and off site.’

Other

Representation ID: 91267

Received: 25/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Geoff Norman

There needs to more thought and plan to protect and develop Local Centres in a sympathetic way as they are vital to the rural community they serve. The idea of downgrading their importance and most likely attention and investment is misguided.

No

Representation ID: 91759

Received: 26/02/2025

Respondent: Mrs Joanne Taylor

Local Centres need more support

Yes

Representation ID: 92049

Received: 27/02/2025

Respondent: Oliver Grice

But. There has to be a way of using the buildings we have better. It seems very strange for really top quality retail buildings like ex. BHS (now empty 10 years?!) can be left to rot, because land owners seem not to be interested. They need to be subject to compulsory purchase. Or turned into high quality affordable town centre housing.

Other

Representation ID: 92454

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Julian Brown

The draft policy seems contradictory, especially for local centres. You claim the existing town centre boundaries for the Main Rural Centres (renamed ‘Local Centres’) are adequate, reflecting their urban form. However, each Local Centre has a Strategic Growth Site, raising doubts about the adequacy of the existing town centre. For example, Henley in Arden, an historic town, has more hairdressers, dentists, and estate agents than other shops. This would be inadequate as a local town centre if SG23 is approved (I oppose in its current form) that would double Henley in size and impact a significant Warwickshire historic town.

Other

Representation ID: 92462

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Stuart Alford

I would encourage more consideration to zero-car traffic in town centres, this will greatly enhance the areas.

Other

Representation ID: 92544

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Paul Fairburn

With increased use of online shopping, and empty retail units lying idle, I suggest that when units on the edge of shopping areas are vacated that the owner be permitted a change of use to residential. This would, over time, shrink the total number of units and make the town centres more attractive.

No

Representation ID: 92617

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Bex Thomson

Not if it involves building new or on green belt

Yes

Representation ID: 92953

Received: 01/03/2025

Respondent: Ms Alison Blake

To be attractive to shoppers retail premises, along with services such as opticians, hairdressers, banks (remember banks?) need to be clustered together. A limit should be made as to how many charity shops are allowed