Yes

ID sylw: 96904

Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alcester Town Council

This is agreed by Alcester Town Council, Arrow with Weethley Parish Council, Kinwarton Parish Council, Wixford Parish Council and Great Alne Parish Council (together referred to as Alcester Parishes Group or ‘APG’).

Yes

ID sylw: 96919

Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Margaret Jeffery

N/A

Yes

ID sylw: 97151

Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Tysoe Parish Council

Yes.

Yes

ID sylw: 97728

Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Gary Jeffery

N/A

Other

ID sylw: 98534

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Holly Farm Business Park

Asiant : The Tyler Parkes Partnership Ltd

HFBP provides this type of accommodation and expansion proposals designed to enable provision of larger units and accommodation to encourage companies to grow whist staying part of the business community. The removal of Holly Farm Business Park from consideration in the plan is inexplicable. In the Policy Direction, the suggestion that larger sites should provide some smaller accommodation seems naïve, focussed again towards bigger sites and developers. It also appears to be equating the provision of business accommodation with affordable housing policies. Employment and housing are different and need to be treated in accordance with economic reality.

Yes

ID sylw: 98569

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: SupremeTech

Asiant : Delta Planning

SupremeTech supports Policy Direction 19. It is important that the SWLP recognises the need to provide employment development which can cater for all needs, including the SME market and this can be achieved by also allocating non-strategic sites to help deliver this provision. By allocating Land off Princes Drive, Kenilworth, as a logical expansion to the existing industrial estate, this will contribute towards meeting the local employment needs for the plan period and will deliver much needed SME units in a highly sustainable location

Please refer to our full response for further details.

Yes

ID sylw: 99062

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: MPTL

Asiant : Harris Lamb

Yes, there is demand for business units of a variety of sizes across the plan area. It should be noted that Stoneleigh Park is capable of providing a variety of different building types and sizes. Indeed, Stoneleigh Park includes a number of existing buildings that could be re-purposed or reused to help support economic growth. These can be supported by large scale employment development on the Kingswood Business Park next to the A46 junction.

Yes

ID sylw: 99355

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Summers Holdings Ltd

Asiant : The Tyler Parkes Partnership Ltd

Agree, it is important to support a range of business units and affordable employment space, however to ensure certainty in the provision of varied employment floor space, the allocation of sites for affordable business space and move-on units should not have been delayed to the Reg.19 version of the SWLP.

Yes

ID sylw: 99536

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mrs Diane Wilson

If Using existing unused sites, not developing new.

Other

ID sylw: 100439

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Geoff Cooper

Small units for smaller and new businesses must be made available.

Yes

ID sylw: 101218

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: AC Lloyd - Sites 64 and 301

Asiant : Delta Planning

AC Lloyd supports the approach that the SWLP proposes to adopt as it recognises the need for a range of employment unit sizes including smaller and medium size units. It is important that the SWLP recognises the need to provide employment development which can cater for all needs, and this can be achieved by also allocating non-strategic sites to help deliver this provision. By allocating land south of Leamington Road, Southam (Site 301), as a logical expansion to the existing industrial estate, this will contribute towards meeting the local employment needs for the plan period in a highly sustainable location.

No

ID sylw: 101224

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Dr Chris Clews

Previous comments relate to this approach.
Where , what size, what tenure, what concessions ... who decides?

No

ID sylw: 101255

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Dr Chris Clews

Supporting must not become subsidizing which ultimately fails.

Other

ID sylw: 101275

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Adrian Summers on behalf of the Summers Family

Asiant : The Tyler Parkes Partnership Ltd

Claybank Farm (Site ref: 517) would be capable of providing precisely this type of accommodation. In these circumstances the removal of Site 517 from consideration in the plan is inexplicable.

In the Policy Direction, the suggestion that larger sites should provide some smaller accommodation seems naïve, focussed again towards bigger sites and developers. It also appears to be equating the provision of business accommodation with affordable housing policies. Employment and housing are different and need to be treated in accordance with economic reality.

Other

ID sylw: 101592

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Webb Family

Asiant : Delta Planning

The Webb family generally support Policy Direction 19 subject to details in our full response.

No

ID sylw: 101619

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Vincent Rollason

This development is not good for the area

Yes

ID sylw: 101946

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bishop's Tachbrook Parish Council

Bishop’s Tachbrook Parish Council supports this draft policy direction.

Yes

ID sylw: 102072

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Joseph Dimambro-Denson

We need where possible to really mix up the uses of our places, bussiness and commerce units next to houses to keep places vibrant throughout the day.

Yes

ID sylw: 102278

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Doug Wallace

N/A

Yes

ID sylw: 103202

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Stephen Currie

Local employment centers and hubs are crucial for local public transport and zero carbon objectives. However, this does not mean local warehouse shipping/transport hub facilities that add no value to the communities.

Yes

ID sylw: 103972

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Stephen Norrie

Seems reasonable

Yes

ID sylw: 104300

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Neal Appleton

Supporting affordable business space is a great way to help the rural economy diversify.

No

ID sylw: 104513

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Miss Ann Colley

Is there a need/requirement to provide more business areas or will they be left empty?

Yes

ID sylw: 104725

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Ian Dunning

You must greatly improve active travel infrastructure and public transport infrastructure everywhere to support these.

Paint is not good cycling infrastructure.
Buses are not good public transport infrastructure.

Yes

ID sylw: 105771

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Wates Developments Ltd

Asiant : Savills

Wates Developments support draft policy direction 19, which focuses on providing a variety of unit sizes within employment sites for start-up and expanding businesses. The development at Coppington Farm, Wellesbourne, part of the SG15 Strategic Growth Option, will offer both smaller grow-on units to benefit the nearby University of Warwick Wellesbourne Innovation Campus and larger industrial/storage units to fulfil local demand. Its proximity to the M40, about 3 miles away via the A429, enhances its ability to accommodate the diverse needs of various occupiers.

Yes

ID sylw: 107040

Derbyniwyd: 21/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce

The CWCC strongly welcomes this Policy Direction 19 and the recognition of the need to maintain a balanced supply of employment premises throughout the plan area. Moreover, it also supports the idea of undertaking further work to encourage the provision of “affordable” business space. The operation of the property market currently means that most new employment allocations are targeted at the upper end of the rental and sales property markets. While this provides additional space and assists the overall market operations it often leaves local shortages at the lower end of the market. This, as is recognised may hamper the growth and expansion of existing
businesses.

The CWCC welcomes the policy initiative here to encourage an element of smaller units
and “affordable” commercial space as part of much larger employment allocations. At the same time, it recognises that such units cannot be provided in all instances on the
larger employment schemes. The proposed research and additional work could look in more detail at the viability issues that underpin the provision of larger schemes.
There may be merit in further consideration of the potential “repurposing” of surplus and empty retail units in town and village centres. The plan makers might, for example, consider the inclusion of a specific provision to encourage the diversification and repurposing of former retail units which because of their location or because of
changing retail trends mean that the buildings become redundant as retail space. This could in some circumstances provide relatively low cost accommodation for small businesses . In the right locations this would not undermine the overall retail function of an area.

No

ID sylw: 108002

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: CEG Land Promotion III (UK) Limited

Asiant : Nexus Planning

CEG have serious concerns regarding the implementation of Draft Policy Direction 19 on the delivery of large scale employment sites. Whilst well-intended, the requirement to provide affordable units, which are below the market rate, has no basis in national policy. The Council justifies this by referencing paragraph 85 the NPPF which states that “Policies… should create the conditions in which businesses can invest, expand and adapt.”
This is considered a misguided interpretation of policy. Whilst CEG support the need for provision of smaller units to address demand from SME’s, it is considered that this would be best be addressed by allocating specific sites with the required mixes to address this demand. Expecting larger sites to accommodate such uses needlessly risks the delivery and viability of site. Moreover, there is a high degree of uncertainty of how effective this policy mechanism would be in creating more affordable space. CEG consider that the lack of affordable units is partly a result of a significant undersupply of modern, well located, sustainable employment space. Therefore, in the first instance the SWLP should be looking to boost employment land supply to satisfy this need. It is therefore requested that the Council revisit and remove this policy and instead allocate specific sites to meet the identified need.