Preferred Options

Object

Representation ID: 49841

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

The Parish Council considers that the proposed level of housing growth of 555 homes per year is not supported by all the evidence available and that the evidence used is insufficiently analysed when predicting the number of homes needed. The baseline population on which the future need is calculated is over-estimated. The plan is not sound on the current information. The Parish council finds that, taking into account all the evidence including the 2011 census, 5,336 homes will be required in the plan period, which is equivalent to 254 homes per year.

Object

Representation ID: 49842

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Although there is a case for some costs to be passed on to house buyers through the developer, these need to be at an affordable level. Those costs should be directly related to the particular development and should not include the large costs of district wide traffic improvements, schools, parks etc., where the existing community is deficient and which would have been provided in the past through central taxation funding. That way, it is more fairly distributed over everyone that will use the facilities.

Support

Representation ID: 49843

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

The Parish council supports the dispersal of additional housing that cannot be located on urban brownfield sites, across the district, so there is a small effect on a number of places, rather than a large effect on a few. In general, this will reduce travel and demand for traffic improvements, use existing educational, health and other community facilities where there is available capacity to do so.
We are also pleased to see the preference to avoid growth that could lead to the merging of existing settlements.

Object

Representation ID: 49844

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

We object to the plan, as it not only plans for growth across the district, but also on the edge of existing towns. "The edge of existing towns" is fine as long as it is the edge within the town. It is wrong when it means "within an existing rural area and that area is really the edge of a rural area adjacent to a town." This terminology is a dishonest attempt to minimise the extent of the plan.

Support

Representation ID: 49845

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Sites within existing towns. This is the best option. If it were possible, all the housing required should be in existing towns and dispersed therein, to make the least demand on support infrastructure and reducing traffic movements.

Object

Representation ID: 49846

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Only 480 houses are to be provided within the urban areas, although, the preferred option document says that there are sites for 1,320 dwellings. This is contrary to the NPPF as this is one of the core planning principles in paragraph 17. There sis also an opportunity to take a pro-active approach to site identification in the urban areas. There are also over 1000 empty houses in the district according to the 2011 census. The regeneration potential in south Leamington and difficult to let areas in social (council) housing locations would release at least 1520 homes.

Object

Representation ID: 49847

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Of all the large development sites in the preferred option, this is the one to which there is the least objection. However, it should not be used as the easy option and certainly not in the first or even second phases. When and if it is brought into the plan, it should be in stages working down from the northern end.

Object

Representation ID: 49849

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

This development must not take place. The road from Greys Mallory and national traffic into Warwick from the south on the M40 as well from the north is a most impressive drive through undulating country, crossing watercourses and woodland around Castle Park so that almost the first thing that the tourist visitor sees is the bridge over the Avon and the views of Warwick Castle. That is the Warwick Wow Factor and attracts a constant stream of photographers. To cover this with 1600 houses would be municipal vandalism. Additional problems of the proposal include high levels of traffic, pollution, loss of agricultural land and a destroyed green wedge.

Object

Representation ID: 49851

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Development on greenbelt can only take place under very special circumstances. On the available evidence the number of properties proposed in the Preferred Options has been over-estimated, and the majority of lower levels of housing could be accomodated within existing settlements, windfall and urban brownfield sites.

Object

Representation ID: 49854

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Following similar reasoning to development at Milverton Gardens, this location could only be developed in very special circumstances. However, the parish Council has argued that the housing numbers required over the next 10-15 years are substantially lower (5336) than the Preferred Options projection (10,800). Development could be accomodated almost entirely within existing commitments, windfall sites and urban brownfield sites.