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Representation ID: 67462

Received: 12/12/2014

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council [Physical Assets Business Unit]

Agent: Savills

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Acknowledges potential for accommodating a community stadium within the area of 'Land West of Europa Way' marked on the amended Policies Map 2 with black shading (reference DS14), and will be taking this into account in its planning application proposals for the Land North of Gallows Hill. the proposed community stadium allocation is still not supported by sufficient evidence base justification to assess whether there are alternative locations for accommodating the stadium or to demonstrate that the proposals are technically feasible within the demarked area on amended Policies Map 2, or whether sufficient funding is available to viably deliver the facility, or even whether Leamington Town FC (who will ultimately have responsibility for the stadium) is fully supportive of the relocation site. the final form of words used in the Plan refers to 'associated uses' or 'associated facilities', in order for Policy DS14 to be effective, WCC considers that either the policy wording or the supporting text needs to explain what it would anticipate being 'associated' with a stadium, to provide the policy with more certainty. WCC considers the disaggregation of the proposed medical centre, local retail facilities and community meeting place requirements for the Land West of Europa Way greenfield allocation away from the previously-proposed single 'Community Hub' provision to a more flexible provision within the site, as set out under PMA3, to be a more appropriate way of delivering these specified community facilities, if they are required.