Object

Representation ID: 66556

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: CPRE WARWICKSHIRE

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The 'areas of search for Park & Ride' should be deleted from TR5 and from the Proposals Map. The P&R proposal is not justified and would not be effective. The safeguarding of large areas around Blackdown and Greys Mallory roundabouts, and west of Europa Way, would blight countryside at sensitive locations.

The justification offered is weak. The proposal to safeguard land around Grays Mallory roundabout was included in the previous Local Plan. This was for the then 'SPRINT' park & ride proposal of Warwickshire County Council, which was not found to be justified, and was abandoned. If the land is safeguarded, the area shown should exclude land east of Europa Way.

TR5 should have added to it safeguarding of a northern, town-centre side access to Leamington Spa Railway Station. The area shown on the Proposals Map east of housing allocation H10 (former Avenue Road station and current bus garage site) is not shown as safeguarded for this direct foot access from the town centre. That new access is shown in the Supplementary Planning Guidance adopted for the station area, but there has been no implementation.