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Representation ID: 66405

Received: 30/06/2014

Respondent: The Warwick Society

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The tabulation in policy DS7 shows that 3,600 new homes have been completed since 2011 or had planning permission by 31 December 2013, that a further 3,100 sites will become available as windfalls, as Small Urban sites in the SHLAA and through the consolidation of existing employment areas and canal side regeneration; urban brownfield sites allocated in policy DS10 provide 1,300 new homes. The total without any use of greenfield land provides for 8,000 new homes.

The requirement for substantial expenditure on healthcare and education infrastructure would be very much reduced, and the needs of the growing population met by incremental expansion of existing facilities within the existing built up area.

The transport infrastructure requirement would be heavily reduced. The need to accommodate traffic growth, especially from greenfield developments south of Warwick, would disappear. Development sites within the existing built up areas would create much less demand for transport: local educational, healthcare, retail and leisure facilities would be largely within walking or cycling distance of the new homes.