Issue and Options 2023

Yes

QB1 Please select the option which is most appropriate for South Warwickshire Claverdon endorses option B1a and proposals to protect and enhance the historic and environmental quality of the village and the steps to be taken by the partnership to achieve that. This level of proposal, however, appears to Claverdon to be far too detailed and is an example of excessive scope/detail in this consultation. These are all issues that are being delegated to NPs and there needs to be some reference in the document to encouraging Neighbourhood Plans to undertake this activity and guidance as to appropriate approaches QB2 Should the Policy on the Vale of Evesham Control Zone be removed, if neighbouring authorities decide not to carry the designation. This is a matter for local councils and people. QB4.Please select the option which is most appropriate for South Warwickshire Claverdon believes that in general our environmental quality needs to be protected and maintained and although the ideas are sound this might have a negative impact on areas to the North depending on the scale of the buffer. However, these are issues to be debated with local communities and the relevant statutory agencies involved and the Local Plan part 1 does not seem to be the correct place to have this debate. QB5 Please select the option which is most appropriate for South Warwickshire Claverdon supports option B5a. The core idea is sound, but we have concerns that this might push more development further to the North.

No

Claverdon has had difficulty assessing the volume and detail of the plan in the timescale. We realise that some difficulties are inevitable but there are in reality only a few key issues in the plan and they are lost in the excessive detail. It would be better if several of the policy areas were dealt with in a separate consultation probably reserved to the individual District authorities in line with the subsidiarity principle. Claverdon considers that the Part 1 plan should be a high level strategic plan which contains the issues which are central to the long term settlement pattern of the sub Region. The plan is also unrealistically long given the rate of social and economic change. There should be intermediate 5 year time periods with milestone and SMART targets. In addition the plan should be backed by a financial analysis of the cost of different options and a risk assessment of affordability of the different approaches. The failure to include a major set of options about the green belt in the consultation indicates a lack of appropriate focus. It essential that the Preferred Option stage is far more focussed and cogent with these intermediate stages and targets.

No

Throughout the document we have identified policies which are inappropriate or being addressed in the wrong place . Part 1 Preferred Options should be radically shortened.

Yes

Not many were raised in the plan. We need much less content and much more time to consider and debate it.