Preferred Options 2025

Yes

Representation ID: 102073

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

The Local Plan is of great importance to achieving the respective corporate strategies of Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon District Councils. It will provide land use policies and proposals that are critical to determining the form and success of communities across these administrative areas over the next 25 years. We agree with this Vision that that South Warwickshire. This of necessity will mean change will occur over the plan period. These spatiral objective are integral to the formulation of the spatial strategy and Policy Direction 1.

Yes

Representation ID: 102131

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

Hallam Land are promoting future development within Strategic Growth Area 19. Having regard to the Sustainability Appraisal, SG19 is the best performing location at Stratford-upon-Avon. This is a notably important conclusion given the pre-eminent role of this main town in the plan area as a whole and in the Stratford-on-Avon District. The land south of Trinity Way is a discreet parcel of land that can be developed independently from the tracts of land south west of the disused railway line and north east of Banbury Road.

Other

Representation ID: 102134

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

The key diagram associated with this strategy approach indicates significant development at Stratford-upon-Avon (east and west of the town). Notably, each of the Options shown includes Stratford-upon-Avon as a focus of development. It follows that the spatial strategy should identify Stratford-upon-Avon in these terms.

Other

Representation ID: 102158

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

NPPF §11 requires that a Local Plan’s strategic policies should, as a minimum, provide for objectively assessed needs for housing and other uses, as well as any needs that cannot be met within neighbouring areas, unless there are reasons why this cannot be achieved. Unmet need will continue to exist and this could well need to be accommodated in the Stratford-on-Avon part of the Plan area.
It will be important that this is an identified part of the strategic housing requirement; it should be in addition to the plan areas’ own housing need.

Other

Representation ID: 102163

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

The Draft Policy Direction requires that development proposals should be consistent with and contribute to the implementation of various transport strategies including the Local Transport Plan, the Rail Strategy and the Local Walking and Cycling Plan. We agree that it is important that the land-use and transport matters are properly integrated. That said, it is the Local Plan that should determine the long-term spatial strategy and those infrastructure plans should equally reflect land use policies and proposals, especially when the duration of those other strategies are shorter term than the Local Plan.

Other

Representation ID: 102173

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

At settlements where there is both potential development land that is outside of the Green Belt designation and other land that is subject to it, the practical application of NPPF §146 is to favour development being located on the former as a first principle.

Other

Representation ID: 102180

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

Draft Policy Direction 26 indicates that individual design codes are proposed for site specific allocations and that these will be produced by the local planning authority and adopted after the SWLP adoption. The logic of these two approaches is that only once those design codes have been prepared would the appropriate density ranges have been determined for different locations. Given the potential extent and number of site-specific design codes required under this approach we would question whether this is an efficient and effective process.

Yes

Representation ID: 102184

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

We agree that the re-use of suitable urban brownfield land should be prioritised in the first instance. That is consistent with national planning policy. However, it is widely understood that present and future development needs cannot be met only on such sites. The identification of greenfield land is therefore an entirely legitimate and essential proposition for this Local Plan.

Yes

Representation ID: 102190

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

We agree with the emphasis on promoting sustainable travel. Consistent with the intention of the NPPF, land allocations should be located so as to contribute to a sustainable pattern of development. This ensures that development is focused on locations that are or can be made sustainable, through limiting the need to travel and offering a genuine choice of transport modes. The integration of land use and transport is therefore critical to the achievement of the objectives of this policy; this is grounded first in the location of new land allocations.

Yes

Representation ID: 102197

Received: 07/03/2025

Respondent: Hallam Land

Agent: LRM Planning

We agree that there should be policies that contribute to and enhance the natural environment. That would be consistent with §187 of the NPPF. Importantly, such a policy will need to afford protection to valued sites in a manner commensurate with their statutory status or identified quality. This reflects the fact that not all designated sites are of equal importance.