Object

Representation ID: 66409

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Hazel and Robin Fryer

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Proposal to remove area from the green belt is based on a claimed sub regional need and in compliance with sub regional strategy. This strategy has not been published and no public consultation has been undertaken for it. Use of unpublished strategies to circumvent scrutiny is undemocratic. Justification claimed is that it complies with the RSS evidence base. This is false as the evidence directed employment to the adjoining MUA and regeneration zone of Nuneaton and North Coventry. City unemployment is 9.5% compared with Warwick District of 3.5%. provision of a major warehouse development is also against the RSS evidence base that required logitics to be served by a rail link. The health of Baginton residents has been ignored in proposing this location. Development of this size in a rural village with less than 2,000 residents does not constitute sustainable development. The failure of the SA to consider this issue is inadequate. The plan does not provide any of the exceptional circumstances to remove this area from the green belt. While this development is supported by the LEP they are an unelected, undemocratic and unaccountable group and many have financial vested interests which act against community values. Warwick District has not embraced principles of localism.