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Form ID: 82214

Respondent: Cerda Planning Ltd

Option T2a: Include a policy which takes a hierarchical approach in terms of prioritising transport infrastructure

selected

Option T2b: Do not include a policy which takes a hierarchical approach

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Form ID: 82215

Respondent: Cerda Planning Ltd

Option B1a: Maintain Areas of Restraint and identify appropriate areas within Warwick District

selected

Option B1b: Remove Areas of Restraint designations

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Option B1c: Maintain Areas of Restraint within Stratford-on-Avon District but not introduce them into Warwick District

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Form ID: 82216

Respondent: Cerda Planning Ltd

Option B5a: Explore and pursue an integrated Environmental Net Gain Policy

selected

Option B5b: Explore environmental net gain through separate policies

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Option B5c: None of these

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Form ID: 82217

Respondent: Cerda Planning Ltd

Q-B8.1: Do you agree that the plan should include a policy avoiding development on the best and most versatile agricultural land, unless it can be demonstrated that the harm to agricultural land is clearly outweighed by the benefit of development?

Yes

Q-B8.2: When considering climate change, biodiversity and economic wellbeing, are there any rural land uses or locations that should be prioritised over others?

No answer given

Form ID: 82218

Respondent: Cerda Planning Ltd

Q-B9: Should the plan include a policy requiring the safeguarding of sites of national importance, sites of local importance, and other non-designated sites known to make a positive contribution to biodiversity or geodiversity; unless the benefits of the proposal clearly outweigh the need to protect the site. Where possible conserve and enhance these sites.

Yes

Q-B10: Please add any comments you wish to make about a biodiverse and environmentally resilient South Warwickshire

No answer given

Form ID: 82219

Respondent: Cerda Planning Ltd

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

Nothing chosen

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

We agree with the proposed broad content of the Part 1 plan, which would deal with the vision, strategic objectives, growth strategy and strategic policies. This approach, in our view, could expedite the plan making process, provide clarity and certainty for developers and allow a focus on the strategic priorities. However, we do continue to have reservations as indicated to our response to the scoping consultation, repeated below. In splitting the Local Plan out as envisaged, it is important that the part 1 Local Plan progresses on its own LDS programme/timetable and advances to adoption as expediently as is reasonably possible. It would not be appropriate for the part 1 Local Plan to be delayed to tie in with an LDS programme in relation to other elements of the Development Plan. It is also important that the part 1 Local Plan is the subject of its own examination – by way of example, in North Essex the three Councils submitted both their part 1 and part 2 Local Plans concurrently, and because the part 1 Local Plan was significantly delayed at examination stage (and significantly altered through the examination) it caused a follow-on significant delay to the part 2 Local Plan without the Councils being able to make any changes to part 2 plan content. It is also the case that deferring all allocations to later parts of the Development Plan relies upon those later parts being found sound. Were that not to be the case, the result would be a defined development strategy and housing and other development needs but no delivery mechanism absent of any positive allocations to implement the part 1 requirements. This is precisely the trap South Kesteven fell in to with their Development Plan – the Core Strategy identified a development strategy heavily reliant on Grantham (with over 50% of the entire plan period housing to be delivered at Grantham) and allocations deferred to an AAP. The AAP was found unsound at examination, and with no ability to deliver housing at Grantham the Council were faced with unplanned housing applications to determine.

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