I am aghast that this has been proposed against the strong objections of the Parish Council and the voice of a large number of local residents. Neither the Parish nor these locals are generally against Radford taking new homes, but they do violently object to the choice of the most sensitive site in the village against their wishes that flies in the face of both localism and all common sense.
This field is the historic defining core that makes this village a real village and not a dormitory area on the edge of Leamington - to fill this in would completely destroy this setting and do exactly that turning into a faceless suburb.
The consultation plan is also misleading, as it shows an access onto Church Lane, but the developer, Gladman Homes, is showing an access coming out right opposite the pub, where there are many junctions and conflicts not to mention hatched white lines and a pedestrian crossing, and which is also the site of many recent serious traffic accidents - how can 100's more cars coming out at this spot help that? This pub is a beautiful listed feature of our village core, that looks out over this field, the medieval setting of the listed St Nicholas Church. What is proposed is will alter that view around the whole historic village core into one of a tarmac highway lined with streetlights and leading to a mass estate of 100+ homes, obliterating the setting of both the pub and the church and totally destroying the village core and character. This is totally unnecessary when so many much less sensitive sites on the edge of the village, some of which the village actually support, have been ruled out without good reason.
Please reconsider this allocation and pick the least sensitive site, not the most sensitive one, and leave us our village character intact.