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Form ID: 74930

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Option C7a: Include a policy that requires new developments and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measures to adapt to higher temperatures?

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Option C7b: Do not include a policy that requires new developments and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measure to adapt to higher temperatures

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Option C7c: None of these

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Form ID: 74931

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Option C6.1a: Include a policy that requires new developments to have a whole lifecycle emissions assessment, with a target for 100% reduction in embodied emissions compared to a 'business-as-usual' approach to construction

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Option C6.1b: Include a policy that has different whole lifecycle reduction targets for different scales and types of developments and for different time periods

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Option C6.1c: None of these

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Q-C6.2: If a phased approach is used, what dates and thresholds should be used?

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Q-C6.3: Please add any comments you wish to make about Net Zero Carbon buildings in South Warwickshire

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Form ID: 74932

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Option C5a: Include a policy that requires net zero carbon requirements for all building proposals that require planning permission – including conversions, changes of use, and householder residential applications

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Option C5b: Include a policy that encourages the retrofit of climate change measures, such as solar panels and heat pumps, including those on traditional buildings or within historic areas

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Option C5c: None of these

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Form ID: 74933

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Option C4.1a: Do not have a policy and allow new development to comply with the national building regulation requirements, which may change over time.

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Option C4.1b: Set a higher local standard beyond the building regulations requirements to achieve net zero carbon in all new developments.

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Option C4.1c: Have a phased approach to net zero carbon, setting a future date by which all new development will need to achieve net zero standards. In the intervening period new development will need to meet building regulation standards.

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Option C4.2a: All new development

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Option C4.2b: Development over a certain size

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Form ID: 74934

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Q-C3.1: Do you think we should develop a carbon offsetting approach to new developments where it is demonstrated that it is not possible to achieve net carbon zero requirements on site?

Yes

Q-C3.2: Do you have any proposals for projects/schemes within South Warwickshire in which developer (or local business) offset payments could be invested to secure emissions removals or reductions?

Yes - all major new developments should achieve net carbon zero. it would be a failing of the SWLP if this were not to be achieved. The Henley-in-Arden Vision is not only to achieve net zero but to go on to provide for carbon sequestration. This is the inevitable direction of policy. Clearly, the SWLP should not be paying lip-service to sustainability, but delivering it. This means allocating viable and deliverable sites for achieving net zero and beyond through sustainable development. There is viable and deliverable scope to achieve this in Henley-in-Arden.

Q-C3.3: Please add any comments you wish to make about renewable energy generation or carbon sequestration in South Warwickshire

Achieving net zero/sequestration at the scale required will not happen by chance. It requires land use planning policies with teeth, setting out requirements for development. The SWLP should take advantage of the existence of viable and deliverable opportunities to achieve zero carbon/sequestration as part of comprehensive sustainable developments. One such opportunity exists in Henley-in-Arden, where there is a willing landowner, available land and a sustainable location for development.

Form ID: 74935

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Option C2a: Require decentralised energy systems to be utilised for developments over a relevant size threshold, where viable

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Option C2b: Have a policy encouraging the consideration of decentralised energy systems

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Option C2c: None of these

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Form ID: 74936

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Option C1.1a: Identify and allocate land that is considered suitable for wind or solar energy generation schemes

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Option C1.1b: Do not allocate land, but have a policy supporting renewable energy generation schemes in principle, subject to criteria on the suitability of the location

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Option C1.1c: None of these

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Form ID: 74937

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Option H6a: Identify a range of specific sites in sustainable locations of up to 15 pitches/plots in size to be developed only for Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople homes.

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Option H6b: Require large developments of over 500 homes to provide a proportion of Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople homes on the edge of the overall site.

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Option H6c: Rely on a case-by-case approach whereby planning applications for Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople homes will be assessed against a range of criteria to determine their suitability.

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Q-H7: Please add any comments you wish to make about delivering homes in South Warwickshire

Custom/Self-Build Housing. This is an important area, but one in which a simplistic approach would fail to deliver on. An inappropriate policy approach can result in no/under-delivery of self-build/custom housing, or where it does happen, in inappropriate development out of keeping with local character. The most successful approach involves planning for specific, large-enough sites within larger master-planned areas. Thus, the SWLP should focus on ensuring that Spatial Growth sites for up to 2500 homes include specific allocations for custom/self-build housing. This would not only ensure delivery, but can provide for viability and importantly, for areas of such housing to be fully and properly integrated into wider plans. This avoids projects appearing as inappropriate add-ons and ensures that all of the advantages of self-build/custom housing can be integrated into the sustainable development of a community.

Form ID: 74950

Respondent: Forward Group

Q-S10: Please add any comments you wish to make about the development distribution strategy for South Warwickshire

The absolute focus should be on Spatial Growth and the approach set out in this regard, with a focus on existing settlements with railway stations, good access and deliverable/viable economic growth potential (eg, Henley-in-Arden) is the correct one. We strongly support the spatial development strategy which includes Henley-in-Arden within each of the five spatial growth options due to its location and ability to deliver significant employment and population growth. In respect of a "threshold" approach and a focus on development within settlement boundaries, care needs to be taken. In general terms, such an approach has resulted in very poor planning outcomes over recent decades. We have seen town cramming reduce the liveability of places. Simply building more densely to avoid building outside an arbitrary settlement boundary is not good planning - it is a binary "brownfield good, greenfield bad" approach that has resulted in very poor land use planning outcomes. Henley-in-Arden has suffered from the impacts of "ad hoc" planning in recent years. With piecemeal, poorly-planned in-fill development that contributes nothing to the vitality of the town or necessary new infrastructure. There is an urgent need to plan for beautiful development and to implement good planning that provides for re-investment into places. This requires planners to plan - to identify appropriate locations for new development. Accepting the need for development enables all attention to then be focused on building beautifully - the SWLP brings the opportunity to revitalise South Warwickshire's key settlements by integrating them with sustainable growth. Forward Group and Alderley Holding’s Trust has set out a vision for its landholdings that would meet not only Henley-in-Arden’s but Stratford’s economic and social needs for the next decade and beyond. Done in the right way, this will result in direct, ongoing re-investment into communities, biodiversity, heritage, recreation, employment, active movement and so on. In this regard, the emerging SWLP has identified an appropriate Spatial Growth-focused approach that we fully support.

Supporting documents

File: Vision Document

Form ID: 74954

Respondent: Forward Group

Agent: Mr Nigel McGurk

Q-H2-1: What is the best way to significantly increase the supply of affordable housing across South Warwickshire?

The only way to significantly increase the supply of affordable housing across South Warwickshire is to allocate viable and deliverable housing land where policy-compliant levels of affordable housing will be delivered as part of a deliverable, agreed masterplan. The Henley-in-Arden Vision provides for the delivery of affordable housing to meet very significant demand in and around Henley and the wider region. In Henley, the Vision provides land in a single ownership where the landowner is committed to delivering comprehensive sustainable development. The SWLP needs to allocate this and several equally viable and deliverable sites which can be masterplanned to include up to 2,500 new homes over the plan period - noting that the delivery of new homes takes time and sustainable development requires homes to be delivered alongside infrastructure and all of the other ingredients required as part of good planning - including a set number of affordable homes, to be delivered in line with planning permissions and associated agreements - and in this way, the supply of affordable housing will be significantly increased over time. Any other approach will result in the failure to deliver the number of new affordable homes that are required. The Henley 2050 Vision demonstrates how a long-term growth plan, under the stewardship of a single landowner can deliver beautiful zero carbon homes in a beautiful neighbourhood.

Option H2-2a: A single South Warwickshire wide affordable housing requirement

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Option H2-2b: Separate affordable housing requirements for Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Districts

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Option H2-2c: A more localised approach with separate affordable housing requirements for different localities across South Warwickshire

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Q-H2-3: How should South Warwickshire best address the specialist needs for older people?

In respect of older people, the SWLP should support the provision of land for elderly-focused accommodation. The most effective way to achieve this would be to identify specific areas or target numbers within Spatial Growth allocations for up to 2500 homes, ensuring a proportion of homes are available for older people - ranging from care and extra care facilities, through to bungalows and homes designed for adaptation.

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