No

Representation ID: 103088

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Chesterton and Kingston Parish Meeting

There should be a priority to develop brown belt land in Coventry and the West Midlands before any further development in South Warwickshire and Leamington and Warwick in particular.

Other

Representation ID: 103120

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Richborough - Salford Road, Bidford-on-Avon

Agent: Turley

The SWLP authorities should accommodate an appropriate proportion of the emerging Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA) housing shortfall to 2050 – once this is established through the publication of a joint evidence base. The SWLP authorities should ensure that the next iteration of the Plan provides a positive and flexible approach to ensure this can happen.

Other

Representation ID: 103123

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Richborough - Gaydon Road, Bishop's Itchington

Agent: Turley

The SWLP authorities should accommodate an appropriate proportion of the emerging Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA) housing shortfall to 2050 – once this is established through the publication of a joint evidence base. The SWLP authorities should ensure that the next iteration of the Plan provides a positive and flexible approach to ensure this can happen.

Other

Representation ID: 103129

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Richborough - Lighthorne Road, Kineton

Agent: Turley

The SWLP authorities should accommodate an appropriate proportion of the emerging Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA) housing shortfall to 2050 – once this is established through the publication of a joint evidence base. The SWLP authorities should ensure that the next iteration of the Plan provides a positive and flexible approach to ensure this can happen.

No

Representation ID: 103132

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Mrs Christine Easton

Most of the available space will be from our green belt. You will be bringing growth housing needs from councils that have got into debt by ignoring a realistic budget and use of council taxes. I want Warwickshire to stay independent and not be joined up with or by urban sprawl from either Coventry or Birmingham. In both these locations they have a greater multicultural society that doesn't exist in Warwickshire which cannot be ignored. Perhaps encompassed but not ignored.

Other

Representation ID: 103136

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Richborough - Sycamore Close, Stockton

Agent: Turley

The SWLP authorities should accommodate an appropriate proportion of the emerging Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA) housing shortfall to 2050 – once this is established through the publication of a joint evidence base. The SWLP authorities should ensure that the next iteration of the Plan provides a positive and flexible approach to ensure this can happen.

Other

Representation ID: 103138

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Richborough - Kineton Road, Wellesbourne

Agent: Turley

The SWLP authorities should accommodate an appropriate proportion of the emerging Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA) housing shortfall to 2050 – once this is established through the publication of a joint evidence base. The SWLP authorities should ensure that the next iteration of the Plan provides a positive and flexible approach to ensure this can happen.

Other

Representation ID: 103145

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Richborough - Wellesbourne Road, Wellesbourne

Agent: Turley

The SWLP authorities should accommodate an appropriate proportion of the emerging Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA) housing shortfall to 2050 – once this is established through the publication of a joint evidence base. The SWLP authorities should ensure that the next iteration of the Plan provides a positive and flexible approach to ensure this can happen.

Other

Representation ID: 103153

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Richborough - Plough Lane, Bishop's Itchington

Agent: Turley

The SWLP authorities should accommodate an appropriate proportion of the emerging Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA) housing shortfall to 2050 – once this is established through the publication of a joint evidence base. The SWLP authorities should ensure that the next iteration of the Plan provides a positive and flexible approach to ensure this can happen.

Other

Representation ID: 103259

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Summers Family

Agent: The Tyler Parkes Partnership Ltd

There is a need for greater certainty and quantification on meeting cross-boundary needs. The suggestion in the Policy Direction for the capacity to be identified on reserve sites released only when supply in the source area falls below 5 years is unworkable. Also, this forgets that some of the requirement might be for employment and other development. The proximity of Elmhurst Farm to the conurbation is well-placed to help meet any such shortfall.

No

Representation ID: 103387

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Mr Neal Appleton

South Warwickshire has some very particular features that place unique pressures on the region. With a green-belt to the north and the Cotswolds to the south, development is sandwiched between the two. To accommodate over-spill from adjacent regions undermines the appeal of the area, which currently makes it a popular destination to visitors from those very regions.

No

Representation ID: 103391

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Giles Harrison-Hall

The concept of the green belt was to prevent urban sprawl. It makes a mockery of that policy to encourage dwellings beyond the green belt, and to thereby encourage commuting through the green belt. The additional journeys ought to be considered in assessing the carbon footprint and sustainability.

No

Representation ID: 103576

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Ms Margaret Halligan

South Warwickshire has more than enough to do here for South Warwickshire itself

Yes

Representation ID: 103650

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Jack Casey

The NPPF requires cross boundary cooperation and providing for unmet needs from neighbouring authorities. SG02, SG10, SG22 & New Settlement Option BW are all ideally located to help meet their respective neighbouring authorities unmet needs.

No

Representation ID: 103962

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Jessica Crook

It seems very unfair that other authorities are not held accountable for their own housing targets etc?

No

Representation ID: 104091

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sheri Cosnett

There are plenty of brownfield sites that can be developed in these areas. My concern is developers find Warwickshire an attractive place to build because the average price of houses is much higher than in Birmingham and Coventry and this is about money not housing need otherwise the brownfield sites in these areas would be developed. also these areas are major employment zones so their housing need needs to be accommodated by them otherwise it will involve extensive travel for residents for work.

No

Representation ID: 104194

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Dr Nicola Sawle

only the coventry area should be considered, black country have sufficient land to meet own needs. Coventry has had significant investment in transport links , thus if any consideration has to be given then it would be towards that region and not be releasing the greenbelt of Warwickshire

Yes

Representation ID: 104261

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Amanda Waters

none

No

Representation ID: 104294

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Mrs Mary Harman

This policy assumes the peoples agreement for unitary council and undermines protections for local council areas such as Stratford district, focussing on the numbers game of meeting targets whilst paying no regard to improvements for real life local communities. This policy is short sighted and If this goes ahead, it will destroy not only the countryside but whole communities creating a devistating inbalance to our traditional culture and harmony built up over centuries and lost forever.

No

Representation ID: 104316

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Mr ROLAND CHERRY

It is a flawed argument and it flies in the face of logic. As I've stated elsewhere, housing must be close to where people work, i.e. in the conurbations, not encouraging long distance commuting by car and turning once thriving communities into dormitory towns and villages. The recent massive expansions of both Shipston and Wellesbourne are cases in point.
We need to feed a growing population whilst preserving and restoring biodiversity in our beleaguered countryside. the catastrophic decline in wildlife, in particular farmland birds, must be addressed by good husbandry and habitat restoration, not building dormitory towns as overspill locations.

Other

Representation ID: 104338

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: South Warwickshire Foundation trust

Given the scale of planned housing growth in the new standard model, we would be concerned about additional housing development above these figures given the sizeable growth in population planned and the impact on existing communities and services. There is a real risk that the existing services would be unable to cope with the population surge, for services which are already very challenged. SWFT would need to carefully consider any additional mitigations required to meet extended housing growth, for example an even stronger commitment to affordable and family housing to support local workforce growth to deliver increased demand for services.

No

Representation ID: 104539

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Stratford-on-Avon Town Council

A proliferation of small scale developments may result in circling historic towns providing a collar affecting both the effectiveness of new development and the pre-existing town. Therefore the cumulative effect of small scale developments should be included in the acceptability criteria. Stratford already is choked by an excess of bland estates encircling the compact medieval town centre.

No

Representation ID: 104609

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Stratford-on-Avon Town Council

The policy makes no mention of the specific transport and connectivity requirements of accommodating growth needs from outside the SWLP area. These transport routes will be essential for commuting to employment outside South Warwickshire. A particular problem is the barrier that the River Avon interposes for people living south who want to travel to Coventry or Birmingham. For development of the Long Marston site, for example, there will have to be a bypass road south of Stratford with routes via new bridges to both the north-west and north-east. linking to the A46.

No

Representation ID: 104652

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Fern Arnold

I admit to not fully understanding meeting unmet need from outside the area. There is plenty of unmet need within Warwickshire without including other areas. Land and housing within the SW area is above the national average. Also people would want to live near where they work.

No

Representation ID: 104666

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Dr Susan Hood

SWLP should be based on need within this area only. South Warwickshire has significant rural areas and is facing less financial pressures than Councils in the Greater Birmingham area. These factors will pressure building in South Warwickshire to meet Greater Birmingham needs as becomes an "easier solution". SW loses Local Wildlife Sites, Potential Wildlife Sites, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, designated Nature Reserves and other important sites which are incredibly important for wildlife within our natural landscape. It increases travel miles, leaves people away from employment and increases carbon footprint and reduces biodiversity.

No

Representation ID: 104914

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Campaign to Protect Rural England - Warwickshire

Policy Direction 4: This does not recognise that Coventry has a surplus of housing land supply and reduced annual housing requirement: under the NSM, an annual housing target 50% lower. It can now accommodater some of Warwick and Stratford Districts's housing requirements.

Change from the pre-Dec 2024 figures (DPA):

Warwickshire (all 5 Districts)      old SM 2315     NSM   3907         +1592

Coventry                       old SM 3082      NSM   1388        - 1694

Coventry has an excess of supply over requirement of 7,900. SWLP requirement to 2040 can be reduced by 6-7.000.

The LPAs should now negotiate for Coventry to accept some of the SWLP requirement.

Other

Representation ID: 104961

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Ms Hannah Green

I understand that there is a need to provide housing for Birmingham and Coventry, but I question whether moving people out of their communities is necessarily best way forward all the time. Are resources being fully investigated and utilised before building irreversible new settlements.

No

Representation ID: 105097

Received: 27/02/2025

Respondent: St Philips

Agent: Lichfields (Birmingham)

St Philips welcome the acknowledgement by the SWA that the SWLP may need to address unmet housing needs from neighbouring authorities. However, St Philips have concerns about the SWLP's approach, which appears to defer addressing these needs until they are explicitly defined and linked to 'reserve sites' that have not yet been identified. Given the urgency of the situation in the GBBCHMA, the SWLP should make provisions for these unmet needs upon adoption. It is clear that a significant shortfall exists, and St Philips believe the SWLP can sustainably contribute to meeting these needs now.

Other

Representation ID: 105700

Received: 03/03/2025

Respondent: Warwickshire Property Development Ltd

Agent: Carter Jonas

I believe it is essential to assist neighbouring Authorities in addressing unmet housing needs, aligned with the duty to cooperate and national policy soundness tests. WDC and SDC are part of two housing market areas, and there is an indication of potential unmet need that requires further investigation. The South Warwickshire Local Plan should be flexible enough to accommodate this need as it develops. I recommend that the information on housing needs be made publicly available to ensure transparency and that South Warwickshire continuously reviews its capacity to meet these needs effectively.

Other

Representation ID: 105710

Received: 03/03/2025

Respondent: Warwickshire Property Development Ltd

Agent: Carter Jonas

I believe it is essential to assist neighbouring Authorities in addressing unmet housing needs, aligned with the duty to cooperate and national policy soundness tests. WDC and SDC are part of two housing market areas, and there is an indication of potential unmet need that requires further investigation. The South Warwickshire Local Plan should be flexible enough to accommodate this need as it develops. I recommend that the information on housing needs be made publicly available to ensure transparency and that South Warwickshire continuously reviews its capacity to meet these needs effectively.