Alternative Sites Consultation

Questionnaire Response:
Royal Leamington Spa Town Council supports Alternative Site 2 being included in Warwick District Council's Core Strategy for th following reasons
1. complete rebuild of Campion School is to be welcomed. The School is doing a first class job in improving the life prospects in the area. It is unlikely the Building Schools for the Future Programme would include Campion for at least ten years. A new state‐of-the art School with the latest facilities would aid significantly the good work already being done.

2.The relocation of the School half a mile to the south still leaves it within easy walking distance of Sydenham and Brunswick.

3.The new School would be an improved community resource with sports facilities and other meeting rooms.

4.Access to the development would be from the roundabout at the top of Sydenham Drive. There is no suggestion of a southern link road as speculated in some quarters.

5.Being the other side of the railway cutting, it would have little impact on the adjacent housing in Brunswick and Whitnash. However, the existing farm road bridges would give pedestrian and cycle access.


6.The development would not be in sight, as far as we can see, of Radford Semele.


7.The Whitnash Brook Valley is proposed to be maintained with a nature trail and cycle route and will form a definite barrier to urther development.


8.There may be some legitimate concern about the impact on road capacity on the Prospect Road route and the Sydenham Drive/ Radford Road junction.


9. In conclusion, this site would have less impact in the exisiting community than other sites and should be supported.

Royal Leamington Spa Town Council is opposed to Alternative Site 3, Glebe Farm, Cubbington being included in the Warwick District Council Core Strategy and believe the site to be unsuitable for the followin reasons:

1.The green space between Lillington and Cubbington should be protected to prevent the unrestricted sprawl of the large built up rea of Leamington Spa, this green space safeguards the countryside from encroachment and maintains the two distinct communities of Lillington and Cubington village.

2.Should this area be chosen then pressure will inevitably arise to extend the development to the clearly defined boundary of Welh Road and into the Green Belt, extended in 2007, around the Thwaites factory.

3.The impervious heavy clay subsoil causes the site to be prone to flooding particularly, along the north western boundary and currently causes flooding to the rear of Cubbington Road and to properties in Oakridge Rod and Parklands Avenue.

4.The site would need to be accessed through the various closes off Parklands Avenue and through The Crest and Mason Avenue, the existing road infrastructure (50's, 60's and 70's estate roads) is not suitable to support the significant increase in traffic that would be generated by any large scale development of the ste.

5.The Telford Avenue/Parklands Avenue and Cubbington Road junction is already overloaded at peak times and has a poor safety record due to the diffiulty of exiting or entering Telford and Parklands Avenues or crossing Cubbington Road. The Crown Way, Lime Avenue junction is also already heavily congested.

6.Such a large scale development would significantly increase cross town traffic and congestion as all of the major food retailer and employment opportunities are located south of the river accessed by only four river crossings.