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Representation ID: 65678

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Warwickshire Gardens Trust

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Remain strongly opposed to placing about half of the proposed green field allocation on land south of Warwick because of its impact on:

Warwick Castle Park, Grade 1 listed park and a site of considerable sensitivity and historic importance. Study appended to this representation examining the historical evolution and the importance of the road as par of the design of Castle Park. Furthermore, the management of land beyond the park was considered integral to the design.

In relation to proposed strategic transport improvements the effects on Castle Park and Banbury Road approach, the setting of the Castle and the whole historic town centre.

These sites are both a profligate use of land and will generate a concentration of traffic where it will be most harmful. The proposed "mitigation" measures in the Arup report in fact are a demonstration that these large developments south of the river should not happen.

Changes to road layout will still be visually damaging to the setting of the park, castle and town, as will the additional traffic.