I am very concerned that the SHLAA used as the foundation for this Local plan does not fully identify the value of the North Leamington Greenbelt, particularly that land between Northumberland Road and Old Milverton. Indeed I believe the SHLAA does not equally consider all sites and considerably more effort has gone into identifying benefits of some sites in comparison to others. The whole document should be reviewed and as a consequence of this the proposed development on the Green Belt North of Leamington should be removed from the Local Plan.
I am further concerned that the Local plan places far greater importance (and indeed too greater an importance) on the policies of the Regional Spatial Strategy Policy in comparison to the National Planning Policy Framework. If appropriate importance was placed in the NPPF which is a more recent NATIONAL document, that is not due to become obsolete like the RSS, then the greenbelt sites to the North of Leamington would not be considered as suitable for development.