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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
6 - Policies Map - H01
Representation ID: 67256
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) considers that the proposal to amend housing allocation H01 to allow for increased housing development within the areas not required for stadium and education use is justified on account of the fact that the site is in a sustainable location on the edge of the urban area, outside of the Green Belt, with good access to Warwick and Leamington town centres and a range of existing retail, employment, education and other community uses and has consistently been promoted for a residential-led allocation throughout the Local Plan preparation process (and the Core Strategy before that) and assessed favourably through the associated Sustainability Appraisals and landscape evidence.
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
3 - DS14
Representation ID: 67455
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
WCC acknowledges the potential for accommodating a community stadium within the area of 'Land West of Europa Way' marked on the amended Policies Map 2 with black shading (reference DS14), and will be taking this into account in its planning application proposals for the Land North of Gallows Hill.
However, following on from concerns expressed by WCC in its previous representations to Publication Draft Local Plan Policies DS11 and DS14, WCC still considers that the proposed community stadium allocation is still not supported by sufficient evidence base justification to assess whether there are alternative locations for accommodating the stadium, or to demonstrate that the proposals are technically feasible within the demarked area on amended Policies Map 2, or whether sufficient funding is available to viably deliver the facility, or even whether Leamington Town FC (who will ultimately have responsibility for the stadium) is fully supportive of the relocation site. On this basis the proposed community stadium element of the allocation is not currently considered to be justified or positively-prepared and therefore not sound. WCC understands that work is underway to address these concerns and WCC accordingly wishes to reserve the right to comment further as and when the various outcomes become available.
As an additional minor point, WDC needs to adopt consistent terminology within the Local Plan. PMA2 refers to "Community Stadium and other uses", PMA3 refers to "Community Stadium and associated uses" and PMA7 refers to "Sports stadium and associated facilities". Without consistency in referencing and without clarity being expressed as to what WDC is seeking and how this can be applied in practice, then the Local Plan is not considered to be effective in this regard.
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
8 - Policies Map - ED1
Representation ID: 67456
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) supports the proposed amendment to Policies Map 2, as set out in PMA8, to amend ED1 to include the additional area for education to the south of the existing boundary, as this is in accordance with the approach discussed with Myton School and the Europa Way Consortium, who own the land to the north, with respect to the boundary of the Myton School education land expansion to the east of the existing Myton School site. The proposed southern expansion of the education allocation is broadly consistent with the land for education use shown on the masterplan for the outline planning application WCC currently has pending consideration for its 'Land North of Gallows Hill' site.
However WCC objects to the wording of the proposed amendment. WCC considers that PMA8 should also acknowledge that in order for Policy DS12 and the associated education allocation on Policies Map 2 (ED1) to be positively prepared and effective, and to avoid the land allocated for education use from being unnecessarily sterilised, the wording within the associated Policy DS12 should state that if the site is not required for education purposes then allocated education land should be deemed acceptable for housing, as a further extension to the current H01 allocation.
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
11 - Policies Map - E4
Representation ID: 67457
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) supports the proposed amendment to Policies Map 2 to include a new employment allocation on Land at Stratford Road, in association with the removal of Publication Draft Policy E1: Land North of Gallows Hill, on the basis that the proposed allocation is considered to be positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy. Please refer to WCC's response to PMA1 for further details of WCC's support for this new allocation.
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
12 - Policies Map - Urban Area Boundary
Representation ID: 67459
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
For consistency with the other proposed strategic allocation around Warwick and Leamington, and to facilitate the delivery of development at the proposed new employment allocation at Stratford Road, Warwickshire County Council (WCC) considers that it would appear sensible and appropriate for the Urban Area Boundary to be amended, as proposed in the Publication Draft Local Plan Focussed Consultation document, to include the new employment allocation at Stratford Road.
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
1 - DS9
Representation ID: 67460
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Supports deletion of employment allocation from Land North of Gallows Hill, Warwick and the addition of an 11.7ha employment allocation on Land at Stratford Road, Warwick. Previous representations and supporting market assessment produced by Savills did not dispute the need for employment land within Warwick District over the next Plan period, but they did highlight that Warwick District would see good demand from local advanced manufacturing companies and that there are few existing sites available for industrial and distribution uses which have the necessary good accessibility to the local and national road network and are adjacent to compatible uses, in accordance with the 'market signals'. The previous representations also objected to the lack of an assessment of potential alternative employment sites, the impact on the Grade II Listed Heathcote Hill Farmhouse, the difficulties in physically linking any employment development on the Land North of Gallows Hill to the adjacent Technology Park and the impact of such uses on the wider adjoining proposed residential uses. As such the employment allocation was not considered to be deliverable. The Coventry and Warwickshire Strategic Employment Land Study does not overcome the lack of justification for employment allocation E1. Land at Stratford Road already benefits from normal services, previous employment use, vehicular access by means of an existing roundabout, good access to the A46 and Junction 15 of the M40, as well as existing bus and cycle routes, and which would not require major infrastructure to make it developable in the short term, would take account of both market and economic signals (as required by NPPF paragraph 158). The analysis demonstrates that a suitable and indeed preferable site to the WCC Land North of Gallows Hill exists, which can overcome the delivery, master planning and ownership constraints to employment development associated with the WCC Land North of Gallows Hill site. it would appear to be chronologically logical to give the replacement employment allocation at Stratford Road the allocation reference 'E1' rather than the proposed reference 'E4' to reflect the intention of PMA1 to delete the previous allocation references E1 and E3
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
2 - DS11 (H01)
Representation ID: 67461
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Supports proposal to increase the quantum of housing within the 'Land West of Europa Way' greenfield site allocation (H01), to reflect the removal of employment allocation E1. However the proposed increase in the housing capacity of the allocation from 1,190 dwellings to only 1,300 dwellings is not considered to be properly justified. No land area figures are quoted for the increase in the education land allocation or for the size of the sports stadium allocation. However, on the basis of the boundaries drawn on the amended Policies Map 2, we estimate there to be an overall net gain in residential land at H01 of c.6.5ha. This in itself would be expected to deliver an increase of c.160-180 dwellings. Therefore a housing allocation for H01 of at least 1,350 dwellings is considered to be more appropriate. Supports deletion of employment land and considers that the allocation of land at Stratford Road for employment uses would represent a more appropriate alternative, which is positively prepared, justified, effective. Acknowledges the potential for accommodating a community stadium however it is not currently supported by a sufficient evidence base to assess whether there are alternative locations for accommodating the stadium, or to demonstrate that the proposals are technically feasible within the demarked area on amended Policies Map 2, or whether sufficient funding is available to viably deliver the facility, or even whether Leamington Town FC (who will have responsibility for the stadium) is fully supportive of the relocation site. On this basis the proposed community stadium element of the allocation is not currently considered to be justified or positively-prepared and therefore not sound. WCC understands that work is underway to address these concerns and WCC accordingly wishes to reserve the right to comment further as and when the various outcomes become available. As an additional minor point, WDC needs to adopt consistent terminology within the Local Plan. PMA2 refers to "Community Stadium and other uses", PMA3 refers to "Community Stadium and associated uses" and PMA7 refers to "Sports stadium and associated facilities". Without consistency in referencing and without clarity being expressed as to what WDC is seeking and how this can be applied in practice, then the Local Plan is not considered to be effective in this regard.
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
3 - DS14
Representation ID: 67462
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Acknowledges potential for accommodating a community stadium within the area of 'Land West of Europa Way' marked on the amended Policies Map 2 with black shading (reference DS14), and will be taking this into account in its planning application proposals for the Land North of Gallows Hill. the proposed community stadium allocation is still not supported by sufficient evidence base justification to assess whether there are alternative locations for accommodating the stadium or to demonstrate that the proposals are technically feasible within the demarked area on amended Policies Map 2, or whether sufficient funding is available to viably deliver the facility, or even whether Leamington Town FC (who will ultimately have responsibility for the stadium) is fully supportive of the relocation site. the final form of words used in the Plan refers to 'associated uses' or 'associated facilities', in order for Policy DS14 to be effective, WCC considers that either the policy wording or the supporting text needs to explain what it would anticipate being 'associated' with a stadium, to provide the policy with more certainty. WCC considers the disaggregation of the proposed medical centre, local retail facilities and community meeting place requirements for the Land West of Europa Way greenfield allocation away from the previously-proposed single 'Community Hub' provision to a more flexible provision within the site, as set out under PMA3, to be a more appropriate way of delivering these specified community facilities, if they are required.
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Publication Draft Local Plan: Focused Consultation
5 - Policies Map - E1
Representation ID: 67463
Received: 12/12/2014
Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]
Agent: Savills
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) supports the proposed amendment to Policies Map 2 (Leamington, Warwick and Whitnash) to remove employment allocation E1 from Land North of Gallows Hill, in conjunction with the removal of references to employment allocation E1: Land North of Gallows Hill from Policies DS9 and DS11.
WCC contends that the removal of employment allocation E1 is justified, positively-prepared and based on recent evidence. Please refer to the WCC response to PMA1 and PMA2 for further information.
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