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Preferred Options 2025
Do you broadly support the proposals in the Vision and Strategic Objectives: South Warwickshire 2050 chapter? If you have any additional points to raise with regards to this chapter please include them here.
Representation ID: 88092
Received: 13/02/2025
Respondent: British Film Institute
Agent: Ms Giulia Bunting
BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.
The BFI plays a strong leadership role in areas relating to research, policy development and advocacy for UK film, and has developed one of the largest and most important collections of film and television material in the world – the BFI National Archive.
BFI’s storage facility at Lighthorne, established in 1978, forms an integral part of the BFI’s National Archive. It represents a nationally significant cultural asset in South Warwickshire which should be formally recognised as such in the Local Plan.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction 9 - Using Brownfield Land for Development?
Representation ID: 88094
Received: 13/02/2025
Respondent: British Film Institute
Agent: Ms Giulia Bunting
BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. BFI’s storage facility at Lighthorne, established in 1978, forms an integral part of the BFI’s National Archive.
BFI is currently looking at options to expand its operations at the long-established brownfield site at Lighthorne.
Policy Direction 9 should enable existing brownfield sites in rural areas to be developed to enable the growth and expansion of businesses and operations, where appropriate, to support the appropriate expansion of all types of sustainable businesses.
This approach is supported by NPPF paragraphs 11, 85, 88(a), 89, and 124.
Yes
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Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction- 12-Locations for Employment Growth?
Representation ID: 88316
Received: 15/02/2025
Respondent: British Film Institute
Agent: Ms Giulia Bunting
BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.
BFI’s storage facility at Lighthorne forms an integral part of the BFI’s National Archive. BFI is currently looking at options to expand its operations at this long-established brownfield site.
BFI supports draft Policy Direction 12 which recognises that sites meeting business and community needs in rural areas may have to be found adjacent to or beyond existing settlements, and in locations that are not well served by public transport. BFI supports that the use of previously developed land will be encouraged where suitable opportunities exist.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction 14- Major Investment Sites (MIS)?
Representation ID: 88323
Received: 15/02/2025
Respondent: British Film Institute
Agent: Ms Giulia Bunting
BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.
BFI’s storage facility at Lighthorne forms an integral part of the BFI’s National Archive. BFI is currently looking at options to expand its operations at this long-established brownfield site.
The BFI facility is a nationally significant cultural asset in South Warwickshire. BFI supports the draft Policy Direction 14. The site should be formally recognised as one of the other major economic assets identified in the Local Plan alongside Major Investment Sites.
This approach is supported by NPPF para 86(a) and Footnote 43.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction-18-Supporting Rural Employment and Diversification?
Representation ID: 88417
Received: 15/02/2025
Respondent: British Film Institute
Agent: Ms Giulia Bunting
BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.
BFI’s storage facility at Lighthorne forms an integral part of the BFI’s National Archive. BFI is currently looking at options to expand its operations at this long-established brownfield site.
Draft Policy Direction 18 should provide for the development of existing brownfield sites in rural areas enabling the growth and expansion of businesses and operations, subject to criteria relating to impacts, to support the appropriate expansion of all types of sustainable businesses in rural areas.
This approach is supported by NPPF paras 85, 88(a), and 89.
Yes
Preferred Options 2025
Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction-21- Arts and Culture?
Representation ID: 88425
Received: 15/02/2025
Respondent: British Film Institute
Agent: Ms Giulia Bunting
BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.
BFI’s storage facility at Lighthorne forms an integral part of the BFI’s National Archive. The facility is a nationally significant cultural asset in South Warwickshire.
BFI is seeking to work with the local authorities in seeking to expand its operations at this long-established brownfield site, in order to preserve and enhance the National Archive, in the national and local interests.
BFI thus supports Draft Policy Direction 21.
This approach is supported by NPPF para 86 (a) and Footnote 43.
