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Representation ID: 49980

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

No exceptional circumstances have been demonstrated for releasing land in the Green Belt for development.
Development of the site North of Milverton will lead to a narrowing of the gap between Kenilworth and Leamington. The site at Blackdown was not considered suitable in the Joint Green Belt Study. There is no evidence to support the statements in paragraph 7.30 about the impact of concentrating 6,000 new homes to the south of Warwick. Disagrees with statement in paragraph 7.31 about the advantages of locating more employment development to the north of Leamington Spa and Warwick. Development to the north will not necessarily cut cross-town traffic flows and there is no evidence that a northern relief road is desirable, would have an acceptable impact or would lead to improvements in traffic flows. Paragraph 7.39 fails to state that the traffic modelling exercise showed that the Development Option which included land at Lower Heathcote Farm had least impact prior to mitigation and demonstarted the greatest improvements when mitigation was applied.
The scoring of sites and options in the Sustainability Appraisal is at odds with the chosen Preferred Option but no explanation is given for this.