Preferred Options

Object

Representation ID: 49765

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

The preferred level of growth (10,800) fails to accord with the requirements of NPPF. A Strategic Housing Market Assessment should have been carried out for a larger Housing Market Area with adjoining authorities.

Object

Representation ID: 49941

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

There should be greater reference throughout the document to NPPF, the Localism Act 2011 and the Ministerial Statement, Planning for Growth (March 2011). Object to the lack of reference to the duty to co-operate in the Localism Act.

Object

Representation ID: 49944

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

Questions the identification of a specific housing requirement, later contradicted in the document, of 550 new homes per annum on new allocated sites. It is inappropriate to include as part of the Vision, which drives the Plan, a precise figure for one of the key components of the plan itself thereby raising concerns of a prejudicial approach to the process.
Objects to requirement for development to be based on the principles of sustainable development. Although an interesting principle, it cannot at this stage be held up as a prescriptive means of determining future forms of development.

Support

Representation ID: 49946

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

Supports the principle of avoiding coalescence

Object

Representation ID: 49949

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

With regard to the opportunities in paragraph 4.8, greater reference should be made to the excellent locational benefits, strong demand for housing and robust local economy which can support growth of benefit to the wider region and sub-region. Reference should also be made to the Government's objectives for sustainable development and the three roles of the Local Plan - economic, social and environmental.

Object

Representation ID: 49959

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

In paragraph 5.2 it is inappropriate to include an objective of providing 550 new homes per annum. This preferred level of growth should be based on an objectively assessed need for housing.
Objects to the assertion in paragraph 5.21 that a level of housing growth at around 700 homes per annum could not be delivered in the plan period because of the time taken for the larger strategic sites to come forward. A plan period up until 2028 is sufficient for sites to come forward in an area such as Warwick District which has a robust housing market and which is likely to show early signs of economic recovery. e Sustainability Appraisal suggests this level of growth is equally sustainable to a level of 600 dwellings per annum. References to a level of growth of 550 homes earlier in the document suggest this may have influenced the evaluation of the appropriate levels of growth for which the District should plan.

Object

Representation ID: 49969

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

PO3 should be clearer about the focus for growth being directed within and on the edge of the urban areas with the preference being for areas outside the Green Belt.
The Sustainability Appraisal should have appraised a "hybrid option", i.e. a broad option combining options 1 and 2 of urban fringe development outside of the Green Belt.

Object

Representation ID: 49970

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

There is insufficient evidence for the windfall allowance.
The reference to a Regional Investment Site is inexplicable and inappropriate.

Object

Representation ID: 49980

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

No exceptional circumstances have been demonstrated for releasing land in the Green Belt for development.
Development of the site North of Milverton will lead to a narrowing of the gap between Kenilworth and Leamington. The site at Blackdown was not considered suitable in the Joint Green Belt Study. There is no evidence to support the statements in paragraph 7.30 about the impact of concentrating 6,000 new homes to the south of Warwick. Disagrees with statement in paragraph 7.31 about the advantages of locating more employment development to the north of Leamington Spa and Warwick. Development to the north will not necessarily cut cross-town traffic flows and there is no evidence that a northern relief road is desirable, would have an acceptable impact or would lead to improvements in traffic flows. Paragraph 7.39 fails to state that the traffic modelling exercise showed that the Development Option which included land at Lower Heathcote Farm had least impact prior to mitigation and demonstarted the greatest improvements when mitigation was applied.
The scoring of sites and options in the Sustainability Appraisal is at odds with the chosen Preferred Option but no explanation is given for this.

Object

Representation ID: 49982

Received: 03/08/2012

Respondent: Gallagher Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

Objects to exclusion of any land south of Harbury Lane.
The Sustainability Appraisal shows that this site has one of the best scores of all sites considered.
Objects to reference to Garden Suburbs. This concept requires further exploration.