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Form ID: 85581

Respondent: Severn Trent

Q-S7.1: Please provide any comments you have on the emissions estimation modelling for the five growth options

Has your emissions modelling incorporated the potential impact of pumping wastewater long distances to the nearest wastewater treatment works of appropriate size and capacity to take a large new population from new settlements surrounding rail corridors?

Form ID: 85582

Respondent: Severn Trent

Option 1: Rail Corridors

Inappropriate strategy

Option 2: Sustainable Travel

Neutral

Option 3: Economy

Neutral

Option 4: Sustainable Travel and Economy

Appropriate strategy

Option 5: Dispersed

Inappropriate strategy

Form ID: 85583

Respondent: Severn Trent

Q-S8.1: For settlements falling outside the chosen growth strategy, do you think a threshold approach is appropriate, to allow more small-scale developments to come forward?

Yes

Q-S8.2: For sites coming forward as part of this threshold approach, what do you think would be an appropriate size limit for individual sites?

Limit of 10 dwellings per site

Form ID: 85584

Respondent: Severn Trent

Q-E8.1: Do you agree that the existing employment allocations, including the revisions to Atherstone Airfield, should be carried over into the SWLP?

Yes

Q-E8.2: If, no please list the sites that should be excluded and give reasons.

No answer given

Q-E8.3: Do you agree that proposals seeking the loss of a business, commercial or community building or facility should be subject to marketing, viability and alternative use tests?

Nothing chosen

Q-E8.4: Pease specify what you consider to be appropriate tests

No answer given

Form ID: 85585

Respondent: Severn Trent

Option C6.1a: Include a policy that requires new developments to have a whole lifecycle emissions assessment, with a target for 100% reduction in embodied emissions compared to a 'business-as-usual' approach to construction

selected

Option C6.1b: Include a policy that has different whole lifecycle reduction targets for different scales and types of developments and for different time periods

selected

Option C6.1c: None of these

selected

Q-C6.2: If a phased approach is used, what dates and thresholds should be used?

No answer given

Q-C6.3: Please add any comments you wish to make about Net Zero Carbon buildings in South Warwickshire

Household and business water use is a carbon intensive resource, both in the supply and the use of it in the home i.e heating of water. Any Net Carbon Approach should incorporate water use efficiency as a core element which will have multiple benefits.

Form ID: 85586

Respondent: Severn Trent

Option C8a: Include a policy that goes beyond existing building regulations, requiring new development and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measures to adapt to flood and drought events

selected

Option C8b: Do not include a policy that goes beyond existing building regulations, requiring new development and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measures to adapt to flood and drought events

selected

Option C7c: None of these

selected

Form ID: 85587

Respondent: Severn Trent

Option C9.1a: Include a policy requiring new development and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measures to increase biodiversity

selected

Option C9.1b: Do not include a policy requiring new development and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measures to increase biodiversity

selected

Option C9.1c: None of these

selected

Q-C9.2 Please add any comments you wish to make about climate responsive development design in South Warwickshire

Severn Trent is supportive of climate responsive development design which supports ambitious water efficiency targets and flood resilience. It is important that all new developments are designed in accordance with the drainage hierarchy, and where possible existing dwellings are encouraged to minimise any existing surface water connections to the foul/combined sewer network. We are supportive of the inclusion of existing dwellings in policy wording, as betterment of existing surface water connections and water consumption could free capacity in the existing network from flows from new development. This could reduce the need for carbon intensive and costly improvements to the sewer network and wastewater treatment works.

Form ID: 85588

Respondent: Severn Trent

Option C11a: Do not include a policy on water quality in the SWLP Part 1

selected

Option C11b: Include policy along similar lines to the existing policies, where supported by up-to-date evidence

selected

Option C11c: None of these

selected

Form ID: 85589

Respondent: Severn Trent

Q-C12: Please add any comments you wish to make about water management or flood risk in South Warwickshire

In the development of the SWLP strategy water resource management, sustainable surface water management, fluvial flood risk and water quality should all be core elements to determining location and size of new development. The location of new development has the potential to impact the number of properties at risk of multiple sources of flooding, including sewer flooding in the network. Policies on SuDs are recommended, and site selection should consider availability to follow the drainage hierarchy and avoid connection of surface water into the foul/combined sewer network. Water quality is an important consideration when determining the location of new development. If the water environment does not have available capacity for increased treated effluent from wastewater treatments works that are set to take new development, then this should be a core consideration in the appropriateness of allocating a development site. Many of our wastewater treatment works discharging into the river Avon and it’s tributaries are at the technically achievable limit with regards to meeting their permit requirements. Unless existing surface water and infiltration flows from a catchment can be significantly reduced, new technology arises that allows us to treat phosphorous more effectively or the Environment Agency allow a deterioration through relaxing permit requirements it is likely to be very difficult to accommodate the planned growth strategies across South Warwickshire.

Form ID: 85590

Respondent: Severn Trent

Q-P1.1: Do you agree with the proposed broad content of the Part 1 plan?

Yes

Q-P1.2: If no, please indicate why

No answer given

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