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Representation ID: 69830

Received: 22/04/2016

Respondent: Bishop's Tachbrook Parish Council

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The land south of Warwick. Leamington and Whitnash has provided 5,415 sites to the total needed for the Warwick OAN of 10,800 already, and
given the acceptance in various parts of the modified local plan proposals that housing needed by Coventry residents should be located adjacent to the city or as close as possible, and
there is overprovision in the plan of between 3646 and 1288 sites whilst still meeting the FOAN of the HMA there is no case to support the loss of further rural/countryside, south of Harbury Lane/Gallows Hill.
The following sites should be removed in both the draft local plan and modification additions as they are not necessary, environmentally sustainable nor consistent with NPPF protection and enhancement of valued landscapes.
1. H02(part) Former sewage works, south of Harbury Lane..
1. the site is immediately adjacent to the proposed country park, and the country Park was reduced in size in January last year from the original proposals; and
2. the retention of this site in the housing programme is no longer needed as the required housing has or is being provided elsewhere,
The best use for this site is to add it to the country park.
2. H13 Soans site, Sydenham Drive.
Note that the planning application granted was for 143 dwellings not 147.
3. H02(part) Land south of Harbury Lane (Excluding former sewage works)
Described as 620 (plus 985 included in commitments). This description is out of date as the commitments are - Lower Heathcote 785, Grove Farm 1 for 200 and Grove Farm 2 for 520 giving a total of 1505. The proposal is for 1605, increasing the housing by 100. It appears that this is to be added to Lower Heathcote, not Grove Farm by omitting the playing field area and building 100 houses on the land. However, these are no longer needed.
4. H46A Gallows Hill
This is allocated for 630 dwellings. The appeal allowed by the Secretary of State was for 450 dwellings, but it seems the District Council is not prepared to set a plan that limits development to that which is needed. The plan does not show the line of the site that has been allowed on the map. The Asps development was careful to keep away from Banbury Road by retaining fields as part of the special entrance to the Historic Town of Warwick. The same philosophy should apply here.
H49 Bishops Tachbrook Seven Acre Close.
5.1 This site has been allocated for 30 dwellings without any reference to the Parish council or cognisance for the draft Neighbourhood Plan that has gone through the consultation processes and is now to go to the examiner.
5.2 The District Council approved the Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundary Consultation report in November 2013. This site was considered in the sites review for Bishop's Tachbrook but was discounted in favour of H23, which could be enlarged from 75 to 150. The Neighbourhood Plan Team found that the village had a deficit in recreational land and this site should be considered for recreational community space.
The community would expect that these matters would be given considerable weight given the progress now achieved with the Neighbourhood Plan.
5.3 An outline application for 125 dwellings on Land south of Mallory Road was refused by the District Council on 26/02/2014 and a subsequent appeal was dismissed by the planning Inspector.
6. These 4 sites are to provide 525 dwellings. As has been shown in the table in Mod 6, there is overprovision for combined Warwick/Coventry if the Hearn update report is adopted and more if Coventry can produce more within its boundary. The omission of these 4 sites from the plan would not jeopardise the soundness of the plan but would mean that sites are provided in the right place to meet identified needs.