Rugby Planning
The Branch
keeps an eye on planning in the area ... here are a few current
issues ...
Housing
- Regional Planning Review
In
December 2007, the West Midlands Regional Assembly submitted
revisions to the Regional Strategy proposing that 10,800 extra
homes should be built in the borough over 20 years –
a massive increase, over one quarter more houses than there
are in the whole Borough, town and villages, today (2). No
specific explanation of why Rugby had been singled out for
particularly high growth was given.
In
October 2008, the Nathaniel Lichfield Report, commissioned
by the Government, recommended between 13,800 and 15,800 new
homes for the borough – a huge increase, of some 40%,
in the number of houses the Borough has now. As there is very
little room for new development within the existing town,
virtually all the new housing would be on green field sites,
extending the town out into the countryside beyond. The Rugby
Radio Station would be far from the only area affected. CPRE
fears that the careful protection of villages between Rugby
and Coventry, in the Green Belt, would be overwhelmed with
new housing if the Lichfield report was imposed by Government
dictat.
The
Examination in Public of the draft Regional Spatial Strategy
was completed in June 2009 and the final report is awaited.
The Coalition Government has announced that the regional government office will be abolished and replaced by some form of Local Partnership. The current situation is therefore uncertain. (August 2010)
See
our press release dated 11/11/08
See
also the CPRE
West Midlands website
Make your views known to wmrss@wmra.gov.uk
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Radio
Mast Site, Rugby - All of the masts have been demolished.
We are concerned that documents in the East Midlands Region
have referred to use of the site for housing although the
site is in the West Midlands.
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