Object

Representation ID: 66052

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Lenco Investments

Agent: RPS Planning & Development

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The Council has failed to give the Green Belt a degree of permanence as required by the NPPF in that it cannot endure within the current plan period, yet alone beyond it. The Plan is unjustified and thus unsound.

The level to which the Green Belt has been amended is therefore insufficient to meet the needs of the District and Sub-Region.There is also clear evidence that Warwick District is severely under providing for housing need, land within the Green Belt offers sustainable options for addressing this.

RPS objects to the methodology applied to the land parcel C11a at Baginton, on the basis that the fourth criterion has been misapplied. PPG2 set out very clearly that this purpose was 'to preserve the setting and special
character of historic towns'. The assessment applied this purpose to Baginton Village which while it is acknowledged has a conservation area, it is not a town of special character, nor is it of special historic context.Against this misapplication of the Green Belt policy the parcel was discounted.

In conclusion the Council's own evidence therefore indicates that the authority was incorrect in its assessment of Green Belt Parcel C11a, as has been clarified by its more recent evidence that would have necessitated the further consideration of the site in the appraisal process.Taken on the whole, it is clear that the Green Belt Parcel C11 should have been appraised more
appropriately and the Council must have due regard to significant changing circumstances in reaching its conclusions now.