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Representation ID: 50223

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Old Milverton & Blackdown JPC

Agent: Hunter Page Planning

Alternative housing sites available:

- Land to the south of Leamington is not designated green belt, nor within any nationally designated area of landscape or environmental protection. It also has potentially better services and infrastructure. Land is available in this area (Lower Heathcote Farm) which is currently being promoted for development and could easy accommodate the scale of development proposed for land north of Milverton and at Blackdown.
- There does not appear to be any robust evidence to support suggestions that there are insurmountable deficiencies with south Leamington to accommodate an additional 1980 dwellings.
- The concentration of growth in South Leamington was identified in the previous Core Strategy Preferred Option (now abandoned). There does not appear to be any relevant justification as to why this spatial vision was abandoned as spatial planning considerations and planning constraints of Leamington / Warwick have not changed.
- It is contended that there are other sites on the eastern and western sides of the settlement that have not been properly assessed or considered in the Preferred Option. All potential and sequentially preferable (non-greenbelt) growth options need to be exhuasted before major development in the greenbelt is considered further.