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Q-E6: Protecting Economic Assets 3.5 The University supports Option E6(a) to include a policy which protects South Warwickshire’s economic assets. Those identified including the University are critical to the success of the local economy and therefore it would have strategic significance if their continued success was undermined. Q-E7.1: Directing employment to the Core Opportunity Area 3.6 The University supports Option E7.1a to include a policy directing employment to the Core Opportunity Area. As well as its own direct employment, the University supports many additional jobs in the regional and local economy and the benefits of co-location and accessibility to other economic assets is key both to protecting existing and generating new jobs. Q-E7.2 Additional economic growth at major investment sites 3.7 The University supports Option E7.2a to include a policy relating to additional economic growth at the major investment sites, including the University of Warwick (both main campus and Wellesbourne). These are of strategic significance and whilst detailed Development Management policies can follow in Part 2, the University attaches considerable weight to the support it receives from the local plan.
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QC1.1: Renewable energy generation 3.8 The University supports Option C1.1b to have a policy supporting renewable energy generation schemes in principle subject to criteria on the suitability of the location. The University already has plans for renewable energy generation on campus including long term ambitions in relation to the ecopark and would welcome a supportive policy and criteria to be met.
3.12 The University actively supports the development of ‘smart city’ technologies in support of sustainable growth and is working with Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and partners in 'Choose Your Way Warwick' - a collaborative two-year project where the campus is acting as a living lab to test out new mobility ideas, approaches and technologies that could help to address the climate emergency. Initiatives include a sustainable travel app ‘Choose your way Warwick’, car clubs, car-pooling, e-scooter trials and demand responsive transport. Smart technology is also being used to support informed decision making, including the use of ANPR at car parks to monitor access and use with plans to extend the use of ANPR through the car-pooling technology to prioritise multi-occupant car trips. Vivacity sensors are also strategically installed around campus in partnership with local authorities to capture traffic movements. Smart technology is also central to the concept of mobility hubs to provide users with access to on-demand services. The university would be supportive of proposals to incorporate streetlight and traffic signal sensors to provide dynamic and cost-effective insights in support of transport network planning and optimisation; the roll-out of smart, connected mobility hubs across the county and provision of real time public transport information through physical displays and digital apps such as Choose your way Warwick.
Q-T1: 20-minute neighbourhoods 3.9 The University supports Option T1b to include reference to the principles of a 20-minute neighbourhood or other similar design approach within a broader overarching policy. This recognises the need to approach this concept on a case by case basis and in the context of existing and proposed sustainable accessibility. Emphasis within the overarching policy should be placed on larger proposed developments which have a greater ability to internalise trips through the provision of complementary land uses such as schools, neighbourhood centres and community hubs. The University supports the need to address full journey profiles, to ensure that strategic connectivity to local and regional urban centres / destinations and first mile and last mile travel are considered in a holistically through sustainable and active travel connectivity improvements. Q-T2: Sustainable transport accessibility across South Warwickshire 3.10 The University supports in principle, Option T2a to have a policy supporting a hierarchical approach in terms of prioritising transport infrastructure. This is subject to understanding the opportunities available to be set out as part of the emerging Warwickshire Local Transport Plan. Further consideration as part of this hierarchical approach should focus on enhancing sustainable connectivity for rural communities to ensure there are meaningful alternatives to private car use through the prioritisation of appropriate transport infrastructure. The University would welcome supporting alternative options for sustainable travel and new mobility, e.g. e scooters, cycle hire, car club/pooling schemes, mobility hubs etc. The University already has plans to support similar initiatives on campus helping our long-term sustainable transport ambitions and would welcome a supportive policy. Q-T3: Road travel, employment, and freight 3.11 The University supports Option T3a to have a policy encouraging more sustainable road-based transport for businesses and views this as an import step on the net zero pathway for decarbonising surface access transport. The University supports an approach which seeks to maximise the benefit of strategic infrastructure investment to help support any opportunities for ‘last mile’ freight journeys or driverless delivery pods and the increased use of electric vehicles, including by public transport operators and car club providers. The use of delivery and servicing consolidation hubs should form part of this policy, to serve existing communities as well ‘future-proofing’ new development. This would allow for last mile deliveries to be made by smaller electric vehicles, reducing congestion and air pollution. This innovative approach is being proposed at the University with an edge-of-campus delivery consolidation centre and last mile delivery and servicing being achieved on campus by a fleet of smaller electric and potentially autonomous, vehicles. The University already has a network of EV charging infrastructure on campus alongside a commitment to increase EV charging availability aligned to proposed campus improvements, and would support a commitment to increase EV infrastructure more broadly as part of the local plan policy. Q-T5: General comments on a well-connected South Warwickshire 3.13 The University’s Strategy 2030 includes an explicit commitment to develop sustainable transport, energy and a green campus. In September 2019, the University declared a state of Climate Emergency and set out plans to reach net zero carbon from direct emissions and the energy it buys by 2030. It is also working with the community to put in place initiatives to significantly reduce indirect emissions with the aim of achieving net zero carbon for both direct and indirect emissions by 2050. In December 2020, Warwick were ranked 4th in the UK and 29th in the world in the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2020. 3.14 The strategies to tackle climate change and provide for and promote sustainable travel within Chapter 10, align with the University’s commitment to becoming a SMART carbon neural campus by 2030, through measures such as improving resource efficiency and reducing campus energy demand, generating and storing green energy to support the campus and local communities and embodying the use of SMART technology across campus. 3.15 The University anticipates further growth in student numbers and research capability by 2030 with new and replacement development primarily focused within its existing boundaries through densification of central campus, the creation of new public realm and pedestrian/cycle friendly routes, the completion of a ring of peripheral mobility hubs where visitors can leave cars and transfer to other forms of demand responsive transport and micro-transit, an integrated approach to ecology and biodiversity, and a shift towards more onsite renewable energy generation as part of the University’s response to climate change. The University is underpinned by a transport strategy which has been designed to reduce emissions through the delivery of a range of sustainable transport interventions.
