We vigourously object to your proposals in the new Development Plans for Old Milverton and Blackdown in the Green Belt.
During the 16 th July Old Milverton & Blackdown PC meeting with Bill Hunt and Councillors Doody, Hammon, and Pratt it became quickly clear that the meeting was not planned to be a "consultation meeting", but rather a statement by the Council on which Options were going to be submitted.
It was frustrating to hear how very clear basic and well founded arguments by several speakers were not taken aboard as points to be taken into account, but rather rebuffed, without indication that they would be considered before the final Proposals were going to be submitted to London.
It became very clear that the contents of the 2012 Preferred Option booklet ignore the 2009 Core strategy plan, which didn't require the use of Precious Green Belt land, and was much less expensive to implement than the infrastructure-change which is proposed.
From the discussions it became clear that other more appropriate Brown or White field sites are available, and could be considered with a little effort and thought by the planners.
The suggestion that the A425 should be made a dual carriage-way seems absurd, and was rejected in the past, since the traffic would not improve , because the entries to Leamington Spa, and Kenilworth are the bottle-necks which can't be much improved.
Theproposal to enlarge the Stoneleigh Road between Sandy Lane and Westhill Road also seems totally unjustified, since any traffic increase from North of Stoneleigh Road will be towards the A46 to Kenilworth , Coventry, or the M40. NOT through this stretch of Stoneleigh Road, through which the traffic has always been fluid .!
As stated before wefeel that a lot of new research should be done to study the points brought up during the meeting, before submitting you final Proposals.