Object

Representation ID: 49287

Received: 31/07/2012

Respondent: University of Warwick

Agent: Turley

Objects to PO16 on the grounds that the University should be removed from the greenbelt.
The exceptional circumstances for removal from the greenbelt are as follows:
* The University was established at a time when HE institutions were regarded as appropriate uses in the greenbelt.
* Government advice to the University was to seek removal of the developed part of the campus from the greenbelt
* Due to the shift in greenbelt policy in the NPPF towards brownfield sites and limited infilling the designation as an MDS is inappropriate
* Central Campus West is an urban development of some scale with further permitted development of 89,000sqm intensifying the urban character.
* The Campus does not serve the fundamental aim of greenbelt policy to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanantly open or contributing to any of the five purposes of greenbelt.
*Removal from the greenbelt would allow the university to plan ahead with confidence without the need to continully justify development in the greenbelt. Paragraph 85 of the NPPF sets out not to include land which is unnecessary to keep the greenbelt permanantly open, to be satisfied that greenbelt boundaries will not need to be altered at the end of the development plan period and to define boundaries clearly using physical features that are recognisable and likely to be permanant.