Revised Development Strategy

Support

Representation ID: 55413

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

Previously commented on emerging Local Plan seeking the release of land at Hatton Park for market housing and related uses. In particular have sought the early release of 3 parcels of land (site reference R38, fronting Birmingham Road, Hatton (about 7.5 hectares))

Acknowledge that the settlement of Hatton Park has previously had substantial housing development in the late 1990s / early 2000s and that housing development has
now been established for over 10 years. The settlement is now established and thriving in its present form.

Future extensions of Hatton Park, as envisaged through the RDS will be expected to blend and bond in with the existing development in planning and environmental
terms.

All three proposed parcels of land are sustainable in form and extent given the large settlement of Hatton Park albeit that it has been categorized as a Secondary Service village, [it is] essentially a Category 2 village.

The parcels meet the criteria of suitability, availability and achievability / deliverability and is suitable for release for housing:

* they adjoin an existing category "Category 2"village

* owners are committed to the early release of all three parcels subject to planning permission.

* all are achievable / deliverable, there being no unforeseen environmental or service constraints.

* confirm that all parcels of land can be accessed off the existing road system including off the Birmingham Road for the main parcel of land.

Affordable housing at the right and appropriate level can be provided on these parcels of land.

In terms of Clients main parcel of land, could accommodate additional development for the benefit of the District as a whole [in form of ] a Continuing Care Retirement -Community (CCRC) incorporating a nursing home and specialist new housing to Lifetime Care -Standards in the form of bungalows, semi-bungalows and some apartments. (subject to market conditions at time of allocation for this specialist use)

This is supported by the District's demographics for the Plan period showing an ageing population, in a very substantial increase in the very elderly age -

A small CCRC would support the existing village of Hatton Park, as well as -meeting the ageing population requirements both for this village and the surrounding -area.

In addition it would complement the existing range of housing with -accommodation for the elderly and those in need of care.

The other two smaller parcels of land owned by Clients could be -considered for release without compromise later in the Plan period for a range of market -and Affordable dwellings appropriate at that time.

Support

Representation ID: 56542

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

Support the District Council's Strategic Vision for their District in the Plan period.

Object

Representation ID: 56543

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

The Plan period only runs until 2029, which if this Strategy is adopted in 2014 will realistically only give some 15 years maximum. It would more appropriate to adopt a longer time period over which to plan the future of the Borough

Object

Representation ID: 56544

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

Cannot understand the rationale of planning for an "interim level of growth of 12,300 homes between 2011 and 2029" when the Strategic Housing Market Assessment projections showed figures of between 11,300 and 14,300 and the employment-led population and household projections pointed to a need for between 13,300 and 13,800 additional homes in the same Plan period.

It would be more appropriate to plan for a growth of 13,300 dwellings in the Plan period at this stage rather than wait a further Review of the Plan and then find that the requirement is considerably higher and there is a shortage of time before the end of the Plan period.

There is sufficient potential housing land within the District to cater for the growth of 13,300 dwellings and request further consideration be given to adopting this higher figure and incorporating the additional 1,000 dwellings in the strategic releases

Object

Representation ID: 56545

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

Table 1 should be amended indicating a total of 13,300 and the table should reflect the need to provide sites to accommodate these extra 1,000 dwellings

Similarly, table 2 needs to be amended to take account of proposals for three parcels of land submitted for housing development at Hatton Park.

Support

Representation ID: 56546

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

Broadly support the thrust of this policy and the reference to the hierarchy of growth, subject to comments about Hatton Park (RDS5).

Object

Representation ID: 56547

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

The Council should plan for a higher growth, ie an extra 1,000 dwellings, these could be spread appropriately and proportionately across the strategic sites, including some additional development in those villages that are able and capable of accommodating some additional housing development.

Object

Representation ID: 56548

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Burman Brothers

Agent: CPBigwood Ltd

No detailed rationale for threshold levels of between 100 to 150 dwellings -for the primary service villages and 70 to 90 in the secondary service villages.

They seem to -have been applied arbitrarily across the board without any real consideration for the -villages, their existing form and extent, themselves.

Some of these villages may be able to accommodate, properly and reasonably, a higher -level of growth than envisaged by the thresholds without compromising either the -settlement itself or unreasonably taking land from the Green Belt.

Because of the length of the Plan period these threshold levels could be implemented in phases and -therefore reducing any compromise for the settlement which a single large development -scheme might have.

For instance at Hatton Park it would be possible with our Clients sites to deliver closer to 175 dwellings as well as some supporting community facilities allowing the village to -properly be re-classified as a primary service village bearing in mind the nearby Warwick -Parkway railway station, the surrounding motorway links and the existing community -facilities.

Appropriate development could take place -in other settlements, without compromise. In particular there appears to have been no -overall allocation to meet small schemes in the "other villages and settlements" as listed -in table 3.

Consider that these villages in total may have accommodated -additional growth to help sustain them of a total of 100 to 150 dwellings over the Plan -period.