Object
Local Plan Main Modifications 2017
Representation ID: 70426
Received: 01/05/2017
Respondent: mr william tansey
Inclusion of a Park and ride for this access route is unlikely to be effective. Inclusion of this area of land is an error which I believe had been admitted and so it should be removed from the proposed modifications - as previously stated.
Inclusion of a Park and Ride this close to Leamington as opposed to closer to the A46 and Chesford Bridge/Thickthorn area is obviously doomed to fail.
It's inclusion would be a direct attempt to convert greenbelt land into brownfield by designation only; thereby circumventing planning the NPPF's requirements for developing green-belt. I.e. the Very Special Circumstances.
This is poorly thought through and counter productive. It makes a waste of £6M of investment in parking in Leamington.
It does not add to the transport infrastructure, it only adds a car park - there are no additional or dedicated busses.
The A452 would require significant redevelopment with dedicated bus-lanes to resolve some of the traffic issues.
The scheme is likely to fail, and the land proposed is significant - similar in size to the original proposed housing development and in the same place. It would likely become brownfield through the process of this failure and then again become eligible for development despite it's position in green-belt and the lack of very-special circumstances currently required to develop it.
This area was not submitted in the original search area for park and ride.
I understood that it's inclusion was an error and the District Council had promised to rectifyy this error and remove it from the proposed plans.