The Warwick member in charge of the council planning office, admit they made mistakes, when they gave planning permission to build on Chase Meadow and Warwick Gates in the way it was built, "but there is nothing they can do about it now." This time! they will go back to Garden suburbs design (available then)and build on Green belt land. (But if they have it wrong!)
They say the traffic congestion and pollution in the Warwick rush hour is unacceptable and admits a large proportion of the vehicles involved are council workers going to and leaving work. Building housing estates surrounding Warwick without addressing this problem is nothing short of ignoring a serious situation for selfish reasons. Illustrated by the fact that:
The only thing they plan that will effect this, is to close their outlying offices and move the staff into Barrack St.
They say if they build the new estates in too close proximity to each other, the builders will not be able to sell them. It doesn't look like a pressing need for new houses to me.
Another issue is Loes Farm/Woodloes lane. The lane is a favourite walking place for Warwick people to take their exercise, so much so that in 2000 it became part of the millennium way.
Millennium celebrations over let's dig it up! (Not quite the intention of the millennium committee one would think.)
The farm is an important wild life corridor especially now the A46 cuts the other one off.
It provides a home for the Harvest mouse, Wood Mouse, Short Tailed Vole, Weasel. All not extremely endangered creatures in their own right, but they are very important in the food chain. Feeding breeding Buzzards and owls that live in the mature Oak and Sycamore trees in that field. Of course they will be made homeless too.
People think it a joke or a ruse when local people say crested newt live in this field .
All newts are endangered species and crested newts are the rarest type of newts. Let's get this straight they do live in that field.
So a piece of Green Belt land, a popular walking place for Warwick people, part of the Millennium way and a place that is near enough a nature reserve is part of a plan that will destroy it, and for what, 180 houses! (And if they get it wrong again will they just say there is nothing they can do about it now." )