Object

Representation ID: 66253

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The Plan and its evidence base suggest that as a consequence of these developments significant additional traffic will be generated and pass through the historic town of Warwick.

Phase 4 Strategic Transport Assessment suggests few traffic management measures are required to accommodate such an increase in traffic and would conserve the significance of the historic environment as a consequence.

It remains unclear, a) how the historic environment was considered, as STA4 makes little or no reference to the historic environment, and b) what are the implications of the additional traffic on levels of congestion and as a consequence the character and setting of the town.

An increasing demand to travel through the town provides an opportunity to enhance the public realm and streets in the town consistent with NPPF para 137, 156 and part of the Plans positive strategy for the conservation of the historic environment (NPPF para 126).