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Representation ID: 67456

Received: 12/12/2014

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]

Agent: Savills

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) supports the proposed amendment to Policies Map 2, as set out in PMA8, to amend ED1 to include the additional area for education to the south of the existing boundary, as this is in accordance with the approach discussed with Myton School and the Europa Way Consortium, who own the land to the north, with respect to the boundary of the Myton School education land expansion to the east of the existing Myton School site. The proposed southern expansion of the education allocation is broadly consistent with the land for education use shown on the masterplan for the outline planning application WCC currently has pending consideration for its 'Land North of Gallows Hill' site.
However WCC objects to the wording of the proposed amendment. WCC considers that PMA8 should also acknowledge that in order for Policy DS12 and the associated education allocation on Policies Map 2 (ED1) to be positively prepared and effective, and to avoid the land allocated for education use from being unnecessarily sterilised, the wording within the associated Policy DS12 should state that if the site is not required for education purposes then allocated education land should be deemed acceptable for housing, as a further extension to the current H01 allocation.