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Yes

ID sylw: 106505

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Wychbury Developments

Asiant : Cerda Planning Ltd

In terms of the strategic growth options, we support the inclusion of Gaydon Lighthorne Heath Group SG13
in the draft SWLP and in particular HELAA site reference 718.
Development at Gaydon Lighthorne Heath is consistent with the overarching plan strategy and settlement
hierarchy.
Its inclusion will assist in meeting strategic growth requirements as set out at Policy Direction 1,
development can achieve the requirements of Policy Directions 5, 8, 10, 26, 31 and 38; and positively
contribute to Policy Directions 6, 13, 21 and 43c.
Strategic growth location SG13 is supported by the Spatial Growth Strategy Options Paper, Strategic
Transport Assessment, and HELAA. As such, its inclusion is consistent with key parts of the evidence base
underpinning the SWLP, which is an approach required by the NPPF.
Strategic Growth Location SG13 would deliver housing and associated infrastructure at one of the SWLP
plan area’s largest urban areas, and thus would - in plan strategy and locational terms - be the most
sustainable location for delivering growth.
Notwithstanding, we consider it essential that the SWLP is taken forward with a smaller parcel assessment
rather than the more macro scale parcels currently shown in proposed strategic growth location SG13. In
and of itself, HELAA site reference 718 is a strategic scale site capable of delivering significant housing
numbers and associated blue and green infrastructure as well as social and community infrastructure.

Smaller areas of the site fronting Banbury Road B4100, with urban influences, are likely to exhibit a lower
(and thus superior) site scoring than the scoring for the wider site 718 – notwithstanding that site 718
performs well (46.70 in the HELAA Part B assessment). As a result, smaller micro scale site assessment
should be carried out to refine the scoring for strategic growth location SG13.