Object

Representation ID: 6926

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Land at Lower Heathcote Farm
The Parish Council believes that:
1. To achieve the employment land to support the target housing requirement of the WMRA, it is unnecessary to develop this Grade 2 agricultural land because there are sufficient sites available on brownfield, lower grade green land and sites at the edge of the city of Coventry that are more appropriate and from which a choice can be made.
2. It is not necessary to re classify arable land for employment before all long-neglected employment land has been fully utilized and that it is imperative that this grade 2 farmland is not given over to development
3. It would lose a significant piece of high landscape quality Warwickshire countryside that is effectively much larger than the plan would suggest being one side of a valley that falls between 45 and 60ft (75mAod down to 55m) down to the historic Tach Brook that was part of the boundary that separated the Saxon Hwicce tribe from the Mercian tribe in north Warwickshire. To build on one side of the valley would ruin the aspect from the other side.
4. It will destroy the Tach Brook valley buffer between the town and village to dimensions that are too small to be effective. It would be particularly disastrous if the land is covered with factories and other employment land detritus.