Issue and Options 2023

Q-S1: Please select the option which is most appropriate for South Warwickshire NWBC Response – Option S1a: Identify Strategic Green and Blue Corridors in advance of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy being produced will address and avoid potential loss/development impacts on these corridors and avoid any delays in delivery of Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Q-S2: Please select all options which are appropriate for South Warwickshire NWBC Response –South Warwickshire Plan should reflect National Guidance as amended by local preferences and determinations. Option S2a: Identify areas considered particularly suited to intensification development and develop a design code for each character area. Have a policy supporting intensification within these identified areas where it complies with the relevant design code, appears most relevant/appropriate. No further comment. Q-S8.1: For settlements falling outside the chosen growth strategy, do you think a threshold approach is appropriate, to allow more small-scale developments to come forward? NWBC Response – Don’t Know, leave for South Warwickshire to determine. The North Warwickshire Local Plan allows small scale development adjoining but outside of identified development boundaries, that is appropriate to and in proportion the size and scale of the settlement and its position within a strategy or hierarchy. However , for sites wholly outside and in open countryside (in effect) no accommodation or threshold is provided for. Q-S8.2: For sites coming forward as part of this threshold approach, what do you think would be an appropriate size limit for individual sites? NWBC Response – As noted above, the North Warwickshire Local Plan allows small scale development adjoining but outside of identified development boundaries, but for smaller settlements in lower category/hierarchy a limit of “usually no more than” 10 dwellings is accommodated. Q-S9: Please select the option which is most appropriate for South Warwickshire NWBC Response – Consider Option S9b: Within this Part 1 Plan, review which settlements have boundaries defined and which do not, as well as the extent of any such boundaries, as most appropriate as current settlement boundaries and situations should be reviewed as part of the overall Plan process. Q-S10: Please add any comments you wish to make about the development distribution strategy for South Warwickshire NWBC Response – No further comment. Issue for South Warwickshire to determine.

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Issue S4: Growth of existing settlements Q-S4.1: Do you think that growth of some of our existing settlements should be part of the overall strategy? NWBC Response – Yes -Agreed, similar approach taken in North Warwickshire Local plan.

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Q-S5.2: NWBC Response –This is an issue specific to South Warwickshire Plan but should be a consideration as part of the plan process. No further comment.

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Q-E1.1: Do you think that the HEDNA evidence provides a reasonable basis for identifying future levels of employment need across South Warwickshire? NWBC Response – Yes, agreed. Note reference in supporting text to “In addition, a proportion of the 709 hectares of strategic B8 employment land (i.e. warehousing and distribution) identified for the wider Coventry and Warwickshire sub-region will also be required.” This also needs to be addressed through the South Warwickshire Local Plan. The Plan should address this issue of sharing the burden across the Coventry and Warwickshire sub-region using the Core Opportunity Areas, Major Investment Sites and the strategic road network within the Plan area (see comments on Issue E7) as appropriate.

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