Object

Representation ID: 6526

Received: 29/09/2009

Respondent: Mrs J Solari

I object to land at Woodside Farm; land south of Sydenham, east of Whitnash; land at Lower Heathcote farm and also land west of Europa Way.
Local schools are already fit to burst.
The roads around this area are always jammed during rush hours.
The doctors, dentists let alone the police are stretched to the limit. With the demise of local big firms e.g. IBM, Ford, AP is there really a need for additional housing? Really? Meanwhile commercial buildings remain empty.
Kenilworth will get a train station so why not there? It surely makes sense to build closer to the city of Coventry.

Object

Representation ID: 6546

Received: 14/09/2009

Respondent: M G Honnoraty

Plan should be shown to be viable:

schools, already oversubscribed
healthcare, already under pressure
roads, already gridlocked twice a day due in part to lack of crossing points over the River Avon
Water and sewage - Severn Trent will need a massive capital injection for the expansion programme
Shoppping will need to be available locally
well-though-out community activities, which need to include green spaces
Employment - to assume that there will be sufficient work in the area for the new population is a pipe dream unless it can be proved that new employment can be brought into the area.

Object

Representation ID: 6553

Received: 29/09/2009

Respondent: Julia Measures Revell

Should contest the demands from the Government for housing. There have been other places in the country who are making very strong cases against accepting these proposals.

Do not want to build these houses in our countryside. We will simply encourage more people to come to Britain.

This goes against concerns we have in the world about global warming and having sufficient land to support our own people by farming and self sufficiency.

Will cause all sorts of problems for the future from social and community infrastructure to quality of life and loss of wildlife.

Warwick does not have the sewerage capacity.

Object

Representation ID: 6563

Received: 14/09/2009

Respondent: Mrs J C Honnoraty

Object to the Council's overall plan to build in excess of 8000 homes, principally in the south Warwick area. This area has already suffered from gross over development that has caused severe problems both with traffic flow and disturbance to the water table.

Object

Representation ID: 6575

Received: 14/09/2009

Respondent: Mrs Anne Kirby

A housing needs survey in Bishops Tachbrook identified only 15 new homes were needed not 4,200 in this area.

A development of this size would destroy our village as a small community and would have an effect on local facilites and infrastructure, especially water facilities.

Proposed development will make the traffic problems worse and encouraging traffic to use the village as a short-cut to beat the regular traffic jams on Europa Way.


Ideally local residents should be employed in the local area, not commuting long distances by car and train. Proposed development will encourage commuter mentality.

Support

Representation ID: 6675

Received: 22/09/2009

Respondent: Milverton New Allotments Association Ltd

Strongly support maintaining of green space between the existing nucleated settlements.

Comment

Representation ID: 6701

Received: 05/11/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council - Heritage & Culture (Museums)

The evidence bases cited for land allocation in respect of employment and housing (5.6, 10.6) do not include all available sources for the historic environment and particularly for non-designated aspects of the historic environment. Two sources of information, the Warwickshire Historic Environment Record and the recently concluded Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC), provide relevant data.

Comment

Representation ID: 6702

Received: 05/11/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council - Heritage & Culture (Museums)

Since the individual allocations will need to take account of the impact upon historic environment we recommend that further work be undertaken to identify the issues in respect of the historic environment. We note that the Landscape Character assessment for Land South of Warwick recommends (para 4.1 fourth bullet) further work including consideration of the HLC. The comments offered below in respect of individual allocations should not be interpreted as a substitute for this more detailed work.

Support

Representation ID: 6769

Received: 22/09/2009

Respondent: Kenilworth Chamber of Trade

support

Support

Representation ID: 6858

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Binswood Allotment Society

support

Comment

Representation ID: 6911

Received: 24/09/2009

Respondent: Budbrooke Parish Council

PC response to consultation: Budbrooke Parish Council have considered the proposals and are pleased to report are in the process of conducting a Housing Needs Survey which will define what is actually needed in the parish. Budbrooke wishes to fiercely protect its green belt land. As BB is not on the drawings/plans at present the PC wish to preserve & protect this area & would therefore be in favour of the current proposals, providing the infrastructure is in place. For example, should the proposed large development south of Heathcote / Warwick Gate happen, it should be guided by the problems of peak time access, lack of amenities etc. as has been experienced in other local and much smaller developments.
However, rather than being told what to do the PC feel Parishes and villages should have a say in what they actually need & want rather than have such large development imposed.

Support

Representation ID: 6943

Received: 23/09/2009

Respondent: Kenilworth Chamber of Trade

Support.

Support

Representation ID: 6980

Received: 24/09/2009

Respondent: Norton Lindsey Parish Council

There is a concern that the failure of Coventry city to redevelop brownfield sites lead to this District having to pick up the pieces. The drive to highlight their deficiencies must be maintained and highlighted.

Object

Representation ID: 7047

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Warwick and Leamington Green Party

While we may agree with the Growth Strategy as stated, we are not convinced that this is being adhered to: we see threats to the Green Belt in the proposed Housing Strategy and to the White Belt to the South and East of Leamington. Likewise we see a continuing desire to allow development to the North of Leamington instead of the South, as stated as being desirable in this Growth Strategy statement

Support

Representation ID: 7073

Received: 29/09/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Trust broadly agrees that preferred spatial option for the district is also the most sustainable.
Focusing growth around existing urban areas reduces the need for significant development of infrastructure and provides basis to promote more localized employment opportunities and sustainable methods of transportation. However, whether preferred option will deliver sustainable growth from environmental perspective will largely depend on appropriate selection of potential sites and recognition and incorporation of key natural environmental assets within design of development. Use of Warwick District Habitat Assessment as tool to inform subsequent opportunities and constraints of each development option is therefore necessity for appropriate site selection.

Comment

Representation ID: 7077

Received: 29/09/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Landscape conservation projects could help
provide a delivery mechanism for the Biodiversity Enhancement areas as outlined by the West Midlands Biodiversity Partnership. Policies that encouraged the delivery of landscape scale conservation projects would therefore be strongly supported by the Trust

Comment

Representation ID: 7090

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: CPRE Warwickshire

We support the notion that the District should meet its own needs but not provide homes for people who wish to leave the major conurbations or provide land for Coventry overspill. We struggle to understand that building on green fields can be 'sustainable'.

Object

Representation ID: 7106

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: The Warwick Society

Underlying theme of Strategy is rapid development of employment, retailing, tourism and housing. Sustainability seen only as a qualification - strategic objective 19 - to the nature of new development (and the proposed pattern of development actually makes this objective unachievable) rather than being itself the vital objective. The government commitment to reducing CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 should be Strategy's overriding objective. If it remains absent, environmental and economic consequences (the latter demonstrated by the Stern Report) would threaten not just characteristics that Society defends but standard of living of all District's residents.

Support

Representation ID: 7116

Received: 10/09/2009

Respondent: Advantage West Midlands

Supportive of broad spatial option proposed which will promote balanced development to meet needs and opportunities, comprising of balanced growth in and around four towns, limited development in rural areas and to secure rural renaissance and growth south of Coventry. Could assist development of economic opportunities arising from Warwick University, which could become increasingly important to District economy.
Welcomes growth of Coventry, acknowledged as being major influence in growth of Warwick District due to proximity and close linkages within sub-region. Major regeneration of Coventry is of particular importance to District due to scale of planned retail/office development.

Support

Representation ID: 7125

Received: 15/09/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire Police

Warwickshire Police is working closely with other police forces in region to develop consistent, constructive approach to challenges of significant population growth. Also involves other police force areas bordering Warwickshire and is informing national policing approach through Association of Chief Police Officers.

From a policing perspective, optimal strategy for development of new housing and business areas is to locate any expansion within radius of existing population and policing centres. The preferred options reflect this principle and provide the best possible starting point for development of policing infrastructure and continuation of good policing services.

Object

Representation ID: 7152

Received: 11/11/2009

Respondent: Don Anderson

Concern that the rate of growth is too high compared to other key indicators such as population growth.

Support

Representation ID: 7386

Received: 24/09/2009

Respondent: Europa Way Consortium

Agent: Entec UK Ltd

The Europa Way Consortium supports Warwick District Council's Preferred Growth Strategy for the District to 2026. The Consortium believes that directing growth to within and adjoining the combined urban areas avoiding Green Belt restrictions presents the most sensible and sustainable approach to meeting housing and employment growth requirements.

The Europa Way site is a defined area of land with few development constraints and is able to come forward in the short term. As such, the Consortium would be keen for the site to be viewed as separate and distinct from the other development opportunities which lie to the south.

Support

Representation ID: 7406

Received: 23/09/2009

Respondent: Parkridge Development Land Ltd

Agent: Holmes Antill

Support

Support

Representation ID: 7418

Received: 24/09/2009

Respondent: Sir Thomas White's Charity & King Henry VIII Endowed Trust

Agent: Stansgate Planning

The strategy reflects the role of the settlements and specifically the inter-relationships of Warwick/Leamington and Whitnash. Their ability to offer access to a wide range of jobs, services and community facilities provides a compelling case for these towns to be a focus for growth in order to support sustainable communities.

Object

Representation ID: 7432

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Hallam Land Management & William Davies Ltd

Agent: Stoneleigh Planning

The summary of the emerging Regional and Sub-Regional Strategy (Phase Two Revision) does not properly reflect the objectives for the growth of the Coventry and Warwickshire Sub-Region.

In so far as Kenilworth is concerned, strategic scale development for housing and employment uses at Kenilworth, as suggested to the south and east, would, in our view, impact on the programme for the regeneration of the Coventry.

Our clients agree that the growth of Warwick/Leamington should be directed to the south of the existing urban area in order to avoid incursions into the Green Belt in the other parts of the District.

Object

Representation ID: 7440

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: University of Warwick

Agent: Turley

Growth at Finham could impact A46/Stoneleigh Road junction and to a lesser extent the A45/Kenilworth Road junction. Further upgrades will almost certainly be necessary to accommodate development. Consideration should be given to a new road linking an upgraded junction on the A46 at Stoneleigh with Westwood Heath Road at Kirby Corner. Any growth west of the A46 must ensure that adequate physical and visual separation is maintained between Coventry and Kenilworth.

Support

Representation ID: 7446

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Trilogy

Agent: Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners

Support the approach of the majority of new development being directed to the urban areas. Support the approach of focussing major retail, commercial and cultural developments within and adjoining Leamington Spa town centre as part of a sequential approach to selecting sites to meet development needs. Support developments generally being directed towards the south of the urban area to minimise journeys through the historic town centres.

With growth in town centres rightly being constrained due to the legacy of fine historic buildings and places, suitable adjoining sites to accommodate the growth of Leamington town centre should be identified.

Support

Representation ID: 7459

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Hatton Estate

Agent: RPS Planning

We support the Preferred Growth Strategy for Warwick to 2026 (page 20) in general and the third bullet point in particular, which states that the preferred strategy for directing new development is to "enable limited development to come forward within and adjoining the villages where it can meet local business and community needs and maintain the vitality of those communities in locations that can protect and enhance the character of the villages".

Support

Representation ID: 7474

Received: 25/09/2009

Respondent: Kenilworth Wardens Cricket Club

Agent: Framptons

Support

Object

Representation ID: 7495

Received: 14/09/2009

Respondent: The Occupiers

Why was there no consideration of the creation of a new settlement (similar to Southam) - possibly near A46/J15 where there are direct links to road network. Why was there no consideration of the option to disperse growth across the District which was preferred by the public from the initial consulation?