Local Plan Briefing
March 2016
What I will cover
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Reminder of the Inspector’s letters
Reminder of risks of not progressing the Local Plan
Coventry and Warwickshire MOU
The modifications
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Housing requirement
Sources of housing supply
Broad locations of growth
Allocated housing sites, green belt changes, safeguarded land,
education allocations, allocations for outdoor sports
– Importance of master-planning and support for site delivery
• Infrastructure update
• Next steps
• Further information
Correspondence from Inspector’s 2015
Inspector – 1st June 2015
• Two main concerns
– Allowance for windfalls
– Unmet housing need arising in Coventry
• Concluded that for these reasons the Plan is not sound
and suggested that Plan should be withdrawn
Inspector – 26th October 2015
• “on the basis of the further joint work recently
undertaken, the commitments made by your Council in
terms of meeting identified housing needs in full and
the amended timetable for additional work, I am able
to confirm that the examination is suspended until May
2016.”
Risks of not progressing the Local Plan
Risk that we will:
• Lose appeals outside the Green Belt
• Have difficulties in justifying and delivering infrastructure
• Fail to deliver much needed development within the
Green Belt
• Miss opportunities for economic growth
• Have increasingly out of date planning policies
• Face government intervention in planning process:
priorities could be authorities
– Without a local plan in place
– Which have not kept policies their plan up to date
– where there is under delivery of housing in areas of
high housing pressure
Consultation with Town and Parish
Councils?
• Extensive consultation during preparation stages
• Once Plan submitted, the process is managed by the
Inspector: it is for him to decide whether our
modifications are sound
• Requirement to progress fast (submit modifications by
May)
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Identify housing requirement (October)
Assessment of possible sites (Sept/Oct/Nov)
Establish overall distribution (Oct/Nov/Dec)
Confirm proposed sites and other amendments (January)
Approve proposals for consultation (February)
• Opportunity for all to respond through consultation
Coventry and Warwickshire MOU
• Coventry’s total unmet need = 17,800 (20112031) or 890 dwellings per annum
Modifications (1)
DS6 Housing Requirement
• Submitted Plan indicated a requirement of
12,860 dwellings (714dpa) (606 + 108)
• Now needs to be adjusted to
– Take account of revised local need (Objectively
Assessed Need = 600dpa)
– Take account of redistribution = 332dpa
• Proposed New Level Housing Growth =
932dpa or 16,776 dwellings 2011 to 2029
Modifications (2)
DS7 Sources of Housing Supply
• Supply needs to be adjusted to
– Reduced windfalls allowance (was 2485, now
1134)
– Ensure flexibility of supply (inspector's
requirement)
– Increase contribution towards Coventry’s shortfall
from 108dpa in the submitted plan to 332dpa
DS7 Meeting the Housing
Requirement
The housing requirement of 16,766 new homes between 2011 and 2029
will be met from the following categories:
Sites completed between April 2011 and March 2015
1483
Sites with outstanding planning permission at 1 st April 2015
5161
An allowance for windfall sites between April 2015 and
1134
March 2029
Small Urban sites
230
Consolidation of employment areas and canal-side
200
regeneration
Sites allocated in this Plan
Total
9,369
17,577
Modifications (3)
Broad Locations of Growth
Modifications (4)
Allocated Sites
South of Coventry
H42 Westwood Heath
H43 Kings Hill
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1800
Modifications (5)
Allocated Sites
Kenilworth
Crewe Lane,
Southcrest Farm
and Woodside
H40 Training,
640
East of Warwick
H41 Road,
100
Modifications (6)
Allocated Sites
North of Leamington
H44 North of Milverton
250
Modifications (7)
Allocated Sites
South of Warwick,
Leamington and Whitnash
H45
Hazelmere and Little Acre
75
H46A The Asps
900
H46B Gallows Hill
630
Modifications (8)
Allocated Sites
New Village Allocations
H19
H47
H48
H49
H24
H50
H51
H27
H28
H53
H29/H30
DSNEW3
H52
Baginton – Land north of Rosswood Farm
Barford- Land south of Wasperton Lane
Barford- Land south of Westham Lane
Bishops Tachbrook - Seven Acre Close
Burton Green - Burrow Hill Nursery
Cubbington - Land east of Cubbington
Hampton Magna - Land south of Lloyd Close
Hampton Magna - South of Arras Boulevard
Hatton Park - North of Birmingham Road
Hatton Park - Brownley Green Lane
Kingswood - Meadow House and Kingswood Farm
Leek Wootton - Former Police HQ
Radford Semele - Additional Land at Spring Lane
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Modifications (9)
Master-planning and site delivery
• Policy DS12 amended to ensure sufficient land is available for secondary
education in Warwick and Kenilworth
• Policy DS15 amended to require comprehensive approach to all strategic
sites
• Policy DS NEW1 added to require strategic and long term framework for
area to south of Coventry
• Policy DS NEW3 added to require master-plan for Woodcote House, Leek
Wootton
• Active support for major site delivery e.g through the Major Sites Officer
Infrastructure Delivery Plan
As a consequence of the new allocations included in the Local
Plan (including the Asps/ Gallows Hill) further strategic
infrastructure matters are identified in the IDP including the
following key matters :• Strategic Transport /Highway Improvements
• Educational Infrastructure
• Health related Infrastructure
Next Steps
• Consultation: representations on soundness
– Until 22nd April
– Focus on Table of Modifications and modified Policies Map
• Consultation: Offer of face to face briefings
– 5th April (morning)
– 6th April (morning)
– Telephone conversation any time
• Collate consultation responses during April and May
• Submit modifications and consultation responses to Inspector – late
May, early June
• EIP hearings
– recommence in September or October
– complete by Christmas
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Inspector’s draft findings - late 2016
Further consultation on any further modifications – early 2017
Inspector’s final report
Council decision to adopt
More Information
Face to face briefings on 5th and 6th April
New Local Plan
www.warwickdc.gov.uk/newlocalplan
Consultation Documents
http://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/info/20410/new_local_pla
n/1066/proposed_modifications_-_feb_2016
Evidence Base
http://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/info/20416/evidence_base
Soundness
NPPF (para 182) Test of Soundness
• Positively prepared – the plan should be prepared based
on a strategy which seeks to meet objectively assessed
development and infrastructure requirements, including
unmet requirements from neighbouring authorities where
it is reasonable to do so and consistent with achieving
sustainable development
• Justified – the plan should be the most appropriate
strategy
• Effective – the plan should be deliverable over its period
and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary
strategic priorities
• Consistent with national policy – the plan should be enable
the delivery of sustainable development in accordance with
the policies of the NPPF
Baginton and Barford
Bishops Tachbrook and Burton Green
Cubbington and Budbrooke
Hatton Park and Kingswood
Leek Wootton and Radford Semele
Strategic Transport / Highway Matters
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500 car park and ride facility agreed within Asps site arrangements.
Europa Way Corridor – Parts 1 and 2 dual carriageway provision and key
roundabout improvements (£1.6 million from Asps and Gallows Hill)
Dual carriageway links between A46 Thickthorn grade separated roundabout
and Bericote signalised roundabout. Possible dualing required south of
Bericote dependent on housing options.
A45/Kenilworth Road - Widening of the southern approach along with the
optimisation of signals
A429 Kenilworth Road/ Stoneleigh Road/ Gibbet Hill Road - Widening and
further capacity improvements
A452/Birches Lane (Kenilworth Gyratory) – Widening (including southern and
western section of the gyratory) and increase to 3 lanes on the A452
westbound approach
Kenilworth Road/Westhill Road - Widening of the existing roundabout
circulatory to two lanes along with all of the entry arms.
Lillington Avenue/ Lillington Road roundabout - Introduction of a segregated
left turn from the A445 WB approach to, and general widening of, the
Lillington Avenue / Lillington Road roundabout
Strategic Transport / Highway Matters
• A452 east of Thickthorn Roundabout - Inclusion of A452 dual carriageway
scheme
• Kings Hill Lane - Improvements to junctions at each end (Stoneleigh Road
signalised and minor widening at Green Lane Junction)
• Stoneleigh Road - New access junction to potential Kings Hill site via
Stoneleigh Road, two new access junctions onto Green Lane for the Kings
Hill site
• A46/Stoneleigh Road and Dalehouse Lane roundabout Implementation of
a scheme which utilises the existing bridge for the southern section of a
new grade separated priority roundabout.
• Larger access junctions to the Kings Hill site via more significant junction
arrangements.
• Widening to two lanes for majority of Stoneleigh Rd eastbound between
Kings Hill Lane and Dalehouse Lane.
IDP – Education related Infrastructure
Secondary Schools
• significant contributions from allocations towards school solutions in Kenilworth/ South
of Coventry
• re-location of Kenilworth schools to Southcrest Farm.
• Potential new schools at Kings Hill (depending on outcomes of joint assessment with
Coventry)
• A substantial level of funding (including from the Asps and Gallows Hill) and land have
been secured to deliver expansion of school places south of Warwick and Leamington
(expansion of Myton and Campion, plus the potential for a new school on secured land)
• North Leamington School to be expanded
Primary Schools include
• a new school at North Milverton,
• significant contributions for a new primary school at Grove Farm ,
• new schools at the Asps and Kings Hill
• improvements to increase capacity at Budbrooke village school
• Potential new school at Westwood Heath (depending on outcomes of joint assessment
with Coventry)
Health Infrastructure
Acute / Hospital care
• Additional £1.4m from the Asps / Gallows Hill secured (over and above
£4.4m already secured from planning approval s)
• other contributions will follow from other allocations
• discussions / co-operation with South Coventry Healthcare providers
about augmenting services in relation to south of Coventry sites (joint
strategy)
GP services
• Exact nature of further improvements under discussion with the CCG (the
CCG are currently reviewing their approach)
• £2.2m already secured from planning approval s. Significant contributions
from the Asps and Gallows Hill agreed.