Draft University of Warwick Supplementary Planning Document

Delivery and Implementation

This SPD covers the period to 2033 which reflects the University's ten year Capital Plan. This is informed by a longer term vision to 2050 although this is not for approval as it extends well into the next plan period. However, this sets the direction of travel for the University in seeking to consolidate the campus within its existing boundaries, reinvigorate and transform the core of campus into a more pedestrian friendly and vibrant place, whilst celebrating and enhancing the wonderful landscape setting of the University on the edge of the Warwickshire countryside.

The SPD provides guidance on the location and design principles to be applied to a series of development proposals in the period to 2033, including known projects like the Social Sciences Quarter and Science and Engineering Precinct, as well as other areas of likely future development.

The Strategic Principles (SP1-6) and Design Principles (DP1-6) will be applied to each development which comes forward for planning approval in either Coventry City or Warwick District areas.

The quantum of development assessed in traffic generation terms provides an upper limit for academic floorspace against which future applications can be considered. Where it falls within these floorspace limits, there should be no need for additional traffic impact assessment. The Monitor and Manage approach and Framework Section 106 Agreement will provide the basis for identifying any mitigation measures considered necessary to address the specific impacts of any proposal being considered by the local planning and highway authorities. Where development comes forward outside of these floorspace limits or for uses not assessed through the SPD (for instance, proposals on the Science Park), a separate Transport Assessment should be scoped and submitted with any planning application following the principles set out in the Monitor and Manage approach.

Each development brought forward in accordance with this SPD should also deliver a proportionate level of provision or mitigation in respect of the relevant supporting strategies.

The University is unable to commit to specific phasing, other than its current intentions to bring forward the first phases of the Social Science Quarter and Science Precinct over the next five years. Given that all anticipated development is effectively infill and/or intensification of uses within the existing built campus, it is not considered that any phasing or triggers are necessary other than those set out in the Framework S106 (see Appendix 1) in respect of transport mitigations.