Some principles in Policy RDS3 and subsequent Section 4.3 are to be supported, such as concentrating growth within, and on the edge of, the existing urban areas and protection of the Green Belt where alternative non-Green Belt sites are suitable and available. The potential consolidation of employment land, intensifying use to free up brownfield land for residential development, is also positive.

It is therefore bewildering to see that these ideas have not followed through to the Housing Allocations in Section 4.4, which impose rural development with no sequential testing for brownfield, greenfield and Green Belt land.

The lack of residential development on the new Morrisons site in Leamington is a terrible missed opportunity.