H24 - Burton Green - Burrow Hill Nursery

The revised local plan has not represented the views of local residents and the unique character of the village of Burton Green; nor does it tie in with plans for HS2.
Burton Green has evolved through small scale developments over many years. This high density 'sub-village' is completely out of character with Burton Green.
The additional 90 homes, plus 32 new Park Homes on 'Le Van' site, combined with the relocation of the village hall due to HS2, will create unsafe road conditions on Red Lane for pedestrians and other road users.

Revised local plan has not represented views of local residents and the unique character of the village of Burton Green; nor does it tie in with plans for HS2. The proposed village green on this site should not be removed. Burton Green has evolved through small scale developments over many years. This high density 'sub-village' is completely out of character with Burton Green.
The additional 90 homes, plus 32 new Park Homes on 'Le Van' site, combined with the relocation of the village hall due to HS2, will create unsafe road conditions on Red Lane for pedestrians and other road users.

The revised local plan has not represented the views of local residents or recognised the issues currently faced by the village of Burton Green.

It is particularly unsound at a time when HS2 is such a cloud over the heads of the villagers.

Why is Burton Green being submitted to so much development in a very small concentrated area which is serviced by an infrastructure of narrow country lanes.

With the HS2 development so closely located it is hard to see how the developers think that these properties are going to be attractive to buyers.

HS2 will not be running for many years so the build stage will coincide with the housing build stage and will not be a very attractive proposition to buyers and mortgage lenders alike.

The ease that a property could be then resold is unlikely as villagers are currently finding when trying to sell properties. These owners will not even have any rights of compensation as they bought with the knowledge of HS2.

Why do we want to see yet more householders trapped in properties they cannot sell. This is a moral outrage to think that this is fair.

Burton Green has evolved through small scale developments over many years. This high density estate is completely out of character with Burton Green. How is the small school going to manage. There are no bus service to speak of or shops.

Proportionally the % of additional housing is well out of kilter with the size of the village and the percentage of additional housing being considered elsewhere.

The additional 90 homes, plus 32 new Park Homes on 'Le Van' site, combined with the relocation of the village hall due to HS2, will create unsafe road conditions on Red Lane for pedestrians and other road users.

CALA Homes supports the increase in the number of dwellings to be delivered from the site from 60 to 90. Our objection relates to the potential of the site to deliver more units if the boundary of the allocation is adjusted to take account of previously developed land to the rear of the nursery. Part of this land is a rural garden. As established in Dartford V SSDCLG [2016] EWHC 635(Admin) a rural garden is previously developed land (the judgement is attached). Also within this area lies a ménage for horse riding - also brownfield land. The remainder of the area is land put to storage use and surfaced with hardcore and used in association with the nursery use. Whilst not technically brownfield land, it has the appearance of brownfield land and it lies between these two brownfield parcels of land.
These three elements have a logical and defensible boundary. As a site visit would confirm, the boundary is clearly defined by physical features and likely to be permanent (paragraph 85 of the Framework). The 'exceptional circumstances' case for altering the green belt boundary in many locations within Warwick District has been carefully made by the district council. As part of the evidence base the District council instructed Mike Murray to undertake a 'Critical Friend' review of the Green Belt Review (V14). This found that within parcel BG4, there is a sub-parcel related to the nursery. There is no map that exactly defines the area to which the Mike Murray sub parcel relates but the sub parcel is defined therein as having substantial areas of hardstanding and buildings. The area proposed by these representations to be added to the draft allocation fits this description. It is considered that the additional land would enable an extra 30 dwellings to be delivered - a modest improvement to the headroom in the plan's housing provision. This would take the total that could be delivered from the site to 129 dwellings.
The suggested area for the extended allocation is shown on the attached plan.
The text notes that the provision of car parking is deleted. CALA Homes (with the full support of the site owners, Mr and Mrs Watkinson) object to the deletion of the car park from the allocation. There are problems with car parking at the nearby primary school and it is considered that reference to the school parking provision should be retained within the description of the allocation.

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