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Representation ID: 63523

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Rachel Padfield

Agent: Rachel Padfield

Potential Sites at Baginton:

1) The site at Baginton (promoted through the previous Core Strategty and consulted on as 'Alternative Site 6') is an appropriate location to accommodate further growth and specifically overflow from Coventry and has the scope to deliver a comprehensive and sustainable mixed use scheme, comprising a Sustainable Urban Extension to Coventry, including a significant number of dwellings whilst allowing additional land for:-

-Protection around the village of Baginton.
-Protection/enhancement of Scheduled Ancient Monuments
-Considerable areas of open space, including open space interspersed throughout the development.
-Additional open space for the airport safety zone and within the noise contours.
-Sufficient land to facilitate highways improvements.
-Development of the site would not detrimentally affect the two Scheduled Ancient Monuments or the conservation area.
-The proposed Baginton site comprised 'least constrained' land (Coventry City, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough, Rugby Borough and Warwick District Joint Green Belt Study, 2009).
-Part of the site at Baginton lies within Flood Zones 2 and 3 of the River Sowe. However, this comprises only a small area of the overall site and is predominantly located around the periphery of the site.
-The site is therefore naturally contained within the landscape which will prevent further expansion into the countryside.
-Development could be planned in such a way as to ensure that sensitive development is located away from the Public Safety Zone.
-The development could be of sufficient size to support new primary schools to serve the increased need generated by the development.
-The proposal could include substantial areas of open space (i.e. green wedges and links).


-A substantial part of the site now forms part of the Gateway Scheme and these areas were proposed for employment development in any event. The areas which were proposed for residential development lie outside of the Gateway Scheme and remain available and deliverable. An indicative map identifying the development site has been provided.

2)Part of the site would also be appropriate for a smaller scale of development, depending on the outcome of the SHMA and the level of housing required for the District. WDC should consider it appropriate to distribute part of the housing allocation to the villages, a small scale scheme for Baginton could be accommodated on the North East corner of SHLAA site C10.

-Approximately 90 hectares were submitted to the SHLAA meaning the sites are available and deliverable as a result of the landowners having submitted the sites themselves or via an agent submitting representations.

-Coventry Golf Club (SHLAA REF: C15) are one of the six landowners who submitted land to the SHLAA process in 2009. This submission comprised site C15 (Land off Church Road) which is not actively used as a golf course. They have indicated that they would wish to retain the core landownership as a golf course and we can facilitate this as part of the masterplanning process.

3) There is a small parcel of land in the centre of Baginton village belonging to Coventry City Council which could be masterplanned to remain as open space should the City Council not wish to see it developed.

4) The land between Stoneleigh Road and Bubbenhall Road is bounded to the north by the A45 and west by the A46 therefore there is more than adequate capacity to provide access and to cope with additional traffic associated with new development