Preferred Options

Object

Representation ID: 49903

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

It has to be remembered that, although we have a lot of value from the past, we are living in the present and are planning for the future. Sometimes it means that there are conflicting interests between the old and the new that is needed to take us forward. It is important to ensure that designations (Conservation Areas) are of sufficient value and importance to justify them being conserved at the cost of compromising other important considerations for the environment in which we live.

Object

Representation ID: 49905

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in June 2012 was 395.77 parts per million according to the US Department of Commerce. The growth in CO2 needs to be taken seriously:

- Perhaps PO12 needs to be the first policy in the document around which other policies fit;
- The intention of PO12 is right, but the requirements are too small;
- Financing costs of reducing energy costs to all buildings;
- Construction is a huge producer of CO2;
- Renewable energy projects may be tokenistic and expensive;
- Make better use of local initiatives / opportunities - water-power;
- Planting trees is beneficial;
- What about ground-source heat pumps rather than replacing gas and oil burners?

Support

Representation ID: 49906

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

The Parish council agrees all the items in PO13. This presumably means that you will protect and improve all playing fields in the district and not let them be turned into Travellers sites or the like.

Object

Representation ID: 49907

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

If developers are to pay for additional transport infrastructure it is probable, even on very large schemes that the high costs of providing additional road, rail and park & ride facilities through such CIL payments is likely to make the project unviable.

Object

Representation ID: 49908

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

All development should provide parking for staff and customers. The cost of that could be the subject of a levy on those businesses related to their use of any facility. If it were possible to provide parking at Warwick Parkway for workers then they could come by train or car on the A46, and take a local train-come-tram along the rail route to Warwick and Leamington and reduce the number of buses and release parking areas for use by customers/visitors. Sufficient free parking space has to be available in reasonable proximity to destinations. We do not agree that "the level of provision of other non-residential car parking should limit the number of additional car journeys", which we interpret as meaning deliberately limiting the number of spaces available.

Support

Representation ID: 49910

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

The policies set out in PO15 are supported. In particular, the principle of Green Wedges is welcomed since it
* provides an appropriate separation of the town from the village essential to maintain the characters of both;
* takes account of the different roles and character of different areas that it includes;
* recognises the intrinsic character and beauty of the countryside and supports thriving rural communities within it;
* ensures that valuable farming land is safeguarded from development that is better located in an urban framework.
The way the green wedge is set up is also important. Reference should also be made to Paper B as part of this submission, which includes more initiatives to support the green infrastructure agenda.

Object

Representation ID: 49911

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Green belt boundaries should only be altered in exceptional circumstances. If is found that, in view of the data now available, there is no longer the need to produce housing to the medium level but that the low growth option is now the most appropriate, then a large part of the Green Belt boundary alteration is unnecessary as there are no exceptional circumstances.

Object

Representation ID: 49913

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

The preferred option of medium growth seems to be totally oblivious of the value of the approach road from the south to the Castle. It proposes to materially downgrade the approach past Castle Park by building housing along the length of the road from Greys Mallory to Warwick, a distance of about 2.5 km. The views across the rolling countryside to the east of the approach road are an essential part of the character of the district and county about which books have been written.

Object

Representation ID: 49915

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

In the rural area, new visitor accommodation will only be permitted if visitors don't need to use a car to get there. This is a strange decision, because few visitors go to Mallory Court by bus for a hotel stay for example or even just a meal. There is a bus occasionally along Harbury Lane so maybe that is alright and it complies, but if another were to be proposed elsewhere that in every other way was a good proposal, sensitively handled, would that be rejected because you could only get there by car? A taxi is not a private car and that can get there so would that qualify? The intention is to control inappropriate development. It needs criteria to do that not dictate how the visitor gets there.

Support

Representation ID: 49916

Received: 02/08/2012

Respondent: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

The carry forward from the current local plan of RAP13, RAP14 & RAP15 for rural areas is supported.