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Form ID: 75429

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Option E4.1a: Include a policy supporting diversification

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Option E4.1b: Do not include a specific policy on diversification

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Option E4.2a: Include a policy supporting small-scale employment opportunities in rural areas

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Option E4.2b: Do not include a policy supporting small-scale employment opportunities in rural areas

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Form ID: 75430

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Option E6a: Include a policy which protects South Warwickshire's economic assets.

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Option E6b: Do not include a policy protecting all these economic assets

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Form ID: 75431

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Q-E10: Do you agree that Tourism should be addressed in Part 2 of the South Warwickshire Local Plan?

Yes

Form ID: 75443

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Q-H1-1: The HEDNA is proposing that we move away from an approach where future household needs are based on the 2014-based household projections towards a trend-based approach. Do you think that the HEDNA evidence provides a reasonable basis for identifying future levels of housing need across South Warwickshire?

Don't know

Q-H1-2: If your answer to H1-1 is No, what would be a more appropriate approach to calculating future housing needs for this Local Plan?

BGPC believes that any review of Green Belt boundaries should include changed circumstances that now justify land previously removed being returned to the Green Belt. A very good example is the land south of Westwood Heath Road (included in option C-17) between Bockendon Road/Crackley Lane and Warwick University. This was taken from the Green Belt in the revised Warwick Local Plan 2017 to be instead denoted as ‘safeguarded’ for future development (perhaps 700 - 900 homes) arising from Coventry’s alleged failure to have sufficient land to cope with population growth projections. These projections were hopelessly excessive, as confirmed by the 2021 Census results published last summer. In BGPC’s view this ‘safeguarded’ land should now be returned to the Green Belt to ensure an adequate divide between Coventry (north of Westwood Heath Road and the University at Gibbet Hill Road) and Burton Green’s NDP Development Area which ends at Crackley Lane as a result the granting of permission for 425 homes, now under construction between Westwood Heath Road and Bockendon Grange and which will double the size of Burton Green as it was in 2017. If the ‘safeguarded’ land were to be developed in the new SWLP it would result in a quadrupling of the size of Burton Green since 2017, whereas returning the ‘safeguarded’ land to the Green Belt would prevent continued urban sprawl between Coventry and Burton Green that local residents are genuinely concerned about.

Form ID: 75444

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Q-H4-1: Do you agree with the approach of contributing to meeting the Birmingham and Black Country HMA shortfall to 2031 on the identified sites in Stratford-on-Avon District?

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Q-H4-2: Please add any comments you wish to make about the scale of the shortfall from the Birmingham and Black Country HMA that South Warwickshire should accommodate within the South Warwickshire Local Plan

No answer given

Q-H4-3: If we are required to meet housing shortfalls from outside of South Warwickshire, how best and where should we accommodate such shortfalls?

Initially account should be taken of sites included in the present Local Plans but where development has not yet begun, so the numbers of dwellings already proposed on those sites should contribute to future needs that may be identified (but not based on ONS 2014 projections). For example, in the area denoted as South of Coventry — where BGPC believes the currently ‘safeguarded’ land south of Westwood Heath Road should be returned to the Green Belt — there is a substantial area known as Kings Hill included in the 2017 Warwick Local Plan to accommodate up to 4,000 homes, and on which outline permission for 2,500 has already been granted, but where no work has commenced. Given the previous excessive and erroneous projections for Coventry’s population growth, this land should be more than adequate to contribute to any further excess Coventry requirements in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, Burton Green PC has been advised that Coventry has sufficient brownfield sites to meet its expected needs up to 2031.

Form ID: 75447

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Option C9.1a: Include a policy requiring new development and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measures to increase biodiversity

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Option C9.1b: Do not include a policy requiring new development and changes to existing buildings to incorporate measures to increase biodiversity

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Option C9.1c: None of these

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Q-C9.2 Please add any comments you wish to make about climate responsive development design in South Warwickshire

No answer given

Form ID: 75448

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Option T2a: Include a policy which takes a hierarchical approach in terms of prioritising transport infrastructure

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Option T2b: Do not include a policy which takes a hierarchical approach

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Form ID: 75449

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Q-B8.1: Do you agree that the plan should include a policy avoiding development on the best and most versatile agricultural land, unless it can be demonstrated that the harm to agricultural land is clearly outweighed by the benefit of development?

Yes

Q-B8.2: When considering climate change, biodiversity and economic wellbeing, are there any rural land uses or locations that should be prioritised over others?

No answer given

Form ID: 75458

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Q-B9: Should the plan include a policy requiring the safeguarding of sites of national importance, sites of local importance, and other non-designated sites known to make a positive contribution to biodiversity or geodiversity; unless the benefits of the proposal clearly outweigh the need to protect the site. Where possible conserve and enhance these sites.

Yes

Q-B10: Please add any comments you wish to make about a biodiverse and environmentally resilient South Warwickshire

No answer given

Form ID: 80245

Respondent: Burton Green Parish Council

Q-I1: Please add any comments you wish to make about the Sustainability Appraisal, indicating clearly which element of the appraisal you are commenting on.

BGPC supports a focus on growth in areas of high levels of connectivity. However, consideration of small settlement location C.17 South Coventry should not overlook that this area is included in the Warwick Local Plan and as a result outline permission has already been granted for 425 dwellings at this location.

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