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Form ID: 77980

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

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

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

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Option C9.1c: None of these

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

Council policy should promote green roofs/walls, which also provide cooling and pollution absorbing services. The Councils should make sure features are protected, so that once properties are bought and occupied, their new owners are limited as to what they can do. E.g. if developers are required to make less than 50% of the wider site concrete, owners must be prevented from concreting over their gardens, where bat boxes are put in, they must be protected, etc. Whether this is possible in the current planning system, we do not know. Employment of a Council ecologist/ecologists to look over such projects and provide independent assessment, rather than relying on promises provided by developers on the basis of their ecologists', which may be dubious or impossible for the Council to check.

Form ID: 77998

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Option C10.1a: Include a policy requiring new development and changes to existing buildings to undertake a Climate Change Risk Assessment. This could this be in line with RCP 8.5 in order to maximise the level of interventions incorporated?

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Option C10.1b: Include a policy requirement for proposals for new development and changes to existing buildings to provide a climate change checklist setting out the appropriate range of adaptation and mitigation measures to be incorporated?

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Option C10.1c: None of these

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Q-C10.2 Please add any comments you wish to make about Climate Change Risk Assessments in South Warwickshire

An assessment, prior to involvement of a checklist, is absolutely necessary. We do not think it is going to be possible to adapt to RCP 8.5, so this might prove a difficult standard to apply in practice, so the Council policy should involve the flexibility to adjust this standard. Perhaps specifying current expected levels of heating, as set out by the IPCC or Met Office, would be better? That said, the main difficulties in adapting in the UK will be down to disruption to food supplies and the collapse of the international economy (and, more long-term, to flooding), rather than due to any difficulty in adapting our houses to higher temperatures, so a bit of "overkill" on this standard might not be a huge problem, particularly as the suspicion remains that projections for "where we are currently headed" (2.7 degrees, according to the Climate Action Tracker) might be a bit too rosy. In any case, it is important that the Councils ensure they have the in-house knowledge to be able to explore and apply this kind of assessment intelligently. If the Councils were able to do this for individual developments, this would also allow them to develop quite nuanced projections for specific local areas, independently of developments. These could be a powerful educative tool in making clear to people the concrete and imminent nature of these changes.

Form ID: 78000

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

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

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

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Option C11c: None of these

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Form ID: 78003

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Q-D1.1: Do you agree that this is an appropriate range of topics for a strategic design policy?

Yes

Q-D1.2: If no, please indicate why

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Form ID: 78005

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Option D2a: Develop a South Warwickshire Design Guide

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Option D2b: Develop design guides and/or design codes for specific places (e.g. existing settlements or groups of settlements, or an 'area' in the case of a new settlement) where the spatial strategy identifies significant change.

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Option D2c: Develop design guides/codes for strategic development sites/locations.

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Option D2d: None of these

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Form ID: 78008

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Option D3a: Include a policy which underlines the relevance and importance of density, but which does not identify an appropriate minimum density or range of densities across South Warwickshire.

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Option D3b: Include a policy which specifies a minimum density requirement across South Warwickshire, whilst emphasising that the minimum may be exceeded. This minimum could for example be set at a similar level to the existing policy in Warwick District - i.e. minimum 30d.p.h.

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Option D3c: Identify appropriate density ranges for different locations /areas across South Warwickshire are specify these ranges in policy. These ranges could be based upon the prevailing characteristics of existing places.

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Option D3d: Identify appropriate density ranges for different locations/areas across South Warwickshire based upon accessibility and potential accessibility of these places.

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Option D3e: None of these

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Form ID: 78012

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Q-D4.1: Do you agree that this is an appropriate range of topics for a policy on the design of safe and attractive streets?

Yes

Q-D4.2: If no, please indicate why

No answer given

Form ID: 78019

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Q-D5: Should we continue with the approach to include a high-level strategic policy within the Part 1 plan and to utilise heritage assessments to inform the growth strategy, and delay detailed policies to Part 2?

Yes

Q-D6: Please add any comments you wish to make about a well-designed and beautiful South Warwickshire

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Form ID: 78022

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Q-W1: Should the Part 1 plan include a policy on pollution?

Yes

Form ID: 78025

Respondent: Stratford Climate Action

Option W2a: Include a policy on Health Impact Assessments

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Option W2b: Do not include a policy on Health Impact Assessments

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