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Representation ID: 50817

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: C and S Taylor LLP

Agent: Parklands Consortium Ltd

It is an intensive and dominant scale of development.
Any development placed next to the Banbury Road would be extremely detrimental to the setting and character of Warwick Castle Park. As part of the history of Warwick Castle Park, it is apparent that the new line of the Banbury Road enlarged the park by an additional two hundred acres so that in 1791 it covered 751 acres. The final section of the new road avoiding Bridge End and entering Warwick by the new bridge was carried out between 1788 and 1793. In the process of enlarging the park a section of the old road was flooded and a new larger lake, New Waters, was formed, and this extended across the new road. The pool created to the east of the Banbury Road and the associated planting formed part of the park itself. The second earl, George Greville was responsible for the enlargement of the park and planned the approach to the castle as a sequence of views. Commencing with the spire of 5t Nicholas Church which can be seen at the centre of the line of the road, the features of the town gradually unfold terminating with the panorama of the castle and the town which was finally revealed from the new Castle bridge. The magnificence of this unusual sequence of views would be irreversibly changed if development was permitted in this location.