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Representation ID: 48985

Received: 16/10/2012

Respondent: Friends of the Earth

Do not support the Northern Relief Road - not be a sustainable policy as it would lead to more use of the private car at the expense of more sustainable forms of transport. It would be contradictory to other policies in the Local Plan.

The choice of sites should be determined by the quality of the proposed land in both Landscape Value and Agricultural Quality terms. This is very much the thinking in the NPPF.

If allocations need to be made, that they should first take place in locations outside the Green Belt rather than in it. Support brownfield allocations.

If greenfield allocations need to be made, we support the allocation of land 'West of Europa Way (W08/ W21), and suggest this should be allocated first, as this is of low to medium landscape value and it is close to employment areas therefore potentially minimising travel to work distances and associated CO2 emissions.

If further allocations are to be made, we support the allocation of land of Medium Landscape Value at Campion School /Whitnash East /South Sydenham (L10/L39); Golf Lane, Whitnash (L11); and Woodside Farm, Whitnash (L14).

Do not support the development of land at Guys Cliffe, Blackdown, Gallows Hill, The Asps, Red House Farm, Northumberland Road or North of Milverton.

Warwick Gates (W20) should be retained as employment land.unless it can be shown that there are more suitable sites for employment available,

If it is necessary to include development in the Kenilworth area, we support the Preferred Option of development at Thickthorn, Kenilworth (K01), as long as a significant proportion of the site is allocated for employment uses.

Development to the south of Leamington Spa and Warwick is generally closer to existing employment areas and transport links than the areas to the north of the towns, so 'cross town trips' (para.7.31) would be minimised by allocating land in the south.