Campaigns


Warwick Planning

The Branch keeps an eye on planning in the area ...
here are a few current issues ...

Housing - Urban Sprawl Protest
Warwick Town Council organised a Protest Meeting in Warwick on Saturday 19th September. There is great concern about the housing numbers to be imposed on Warwick District and the proposals put forward to accommodate these houses.
Mark Sullivan, our Technical Secretary gave a very clear description of the issues as CPRE sees them.
A large contingent of people was protesting particularly about proposals for land to the south of Harbury Lane.

Protest
Mark speaking at Warwick

Housing - Regional Planning Review
In December 2007, the West Midlands Regional Assembly submitted revisions to the Regional Strategy proposing that 10,800 extra houses should be built in the district over 20 years – nearly a fifth as many houses again as there are in the whole of Warwick District now. But in October 2008, the Nathaniel Lichfield Report, commissioned by the Government, recommended between 15,800 and 20,800 new homes – an increase of up to a third in the number of houses in the district. There is room for only a minority of these within the existing towns. The great majority would have to be built on greenfield sites, many of them in the Green Belt, which is supposed to be protected from development.

The Examination in Public of the draft Regional Spatial Strategy was completed in June 2009 and the final report is awaited.

See our press release dated 11/11/08

See also the CPRE West Midlands website

Make your views known to wmrss@wmra.gov.uk or Join Us

Warwick District Council has published a Core Strategy on how the housing target of 10,800 homes may be achieved.


This is a view of land at Tachbrook Road which may
be filled with houses by 2026

The consultation paper includes housing land in Leamington Spa to the west of Europa Way, to the south of Harbury Lane and a small parcel adjacent to Sydenham estate. It also includes land in Kenilworth in the Green Belt between Glasshouse Lane and the A46. Perhaps of most concern is that in addition to providing the target of 10,800 homes for Warwick district an area of land at Finham is loosely identified for 7,000 houses for which Coventry may not be able to find land.

Stoneleigh Park - We remain concerned at proposals to develop this site for purposes other than activities relating to the promotion of agriculture. We raised our concerns at the public inquiry into the local plan but no change was made. We now know that the Royal Show in 2009 is the last one. We also hear that a major dairy show is moving from the site to the NEC. What is to be the future of Stoneleigh Park?

Coventry Airport - Planning permission refused. Scheduled passenger flights stop. More information is available here

Warwick District Local Plan - The Plan was agreed in 2007. We appeared at 10 oral hearings and submitted about 40 written representations. The whole scheme is again under review as the Local Development Framework (LDF) is being prepared. We have submitted comments on the draft Core Strategy for the LDF. We anticipate that the existing Local Plan will be "saved" until the LDF is completed.


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