A 'Preferred Options Paper' has been prepared which will form the basis for the consultation. This document is available to view online at www.warwickdc.gov.uk/corestrategy . You can pick up a hard copy from the Library, Riverside House or the Town Hall in Leamington. |
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WDC COUNCIL VOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGE B.L.A.S.T. |
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At the full council meeting on 16th June 2009, Warwick District Council debated putting out for consultation the Core Strategy report developed by the Planning Department. The idea being that the Council will respond to the public views which will be gathered during the public consultation which will run from July to the end of September. It is very important that we all join in this consultation both individually and as committees. As soon as we get our hands on this consultation document we will alert you so that you can fill one in giving your views of what is proposed. Many of the councillors gave their views and recognised the campaign that BLAST has run and reflected upon some of the points we were making about protecting food producing land etc. Quite clearly the Councillors, along with the planners, had heeded our message and responded accordingly. It was obvious during the debate that developers have a lot more power and influence than we realise and must be guarded against at all costs and we must remain vigilant. |
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B.L.A.S.T. TARGETS WDC EXECUTIVE |
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Warwick District Council Executive met on 10th June 2009 and discussed amongst other things the Planning Officers Report on Preferred Options on where housing growth should be. After the recent publication of potential sites around the district it was clear that the planners realised the importance of protecting the Green Belt and did NOT suggest that allotment and Green Belt in North Leamington should be used. Councillor Doody said this report is the strongest document they have to fight developers who previously set the agenda of where to build.
Councillor Hammon said it is the most important documents to play a part in our local history. Councillor Gifford suggested that we should all welcome this document as a fair solution to any future planning and the public should be fully allowed to support it through its next stage. BLAST committee member Geoff Southgate will be speaking at the WDC full Council Meeting next week on Tuesday, 16th June 2009 at 6.00 in Leamington Town Hall and will thank the Council for seeing sense while reminding them that BLAST will remain vigilant in protecting food producing land in North Leamington. This meeting is a public meeting which you are entitled to attend - so please do. |
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B.L.A.S.T. LOOKS TO COUNCILLORS TO PROTECT ALLOTMENTS & GREEN BELT |
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If Warwick District Council allowed planning permission in North Leamington, it isn’t just newts who will lose their habitat, it’s also some special allotments looked after by very special people. For example if an access road goes through Binswood Allotments from Borrowdale Drive fifteen active plots would be tarmac-ed including Rosemary’s prize winning plot and ‘Chicken’ George’s plots that have been worked actively by him for over 50 years, his chickens lay the best eggs in Leamington. If an access road is allowed from Fairways through Binswood into Milverton New allotments to reach the Green Belt, even more plots would be destroyed including plots actively worked by a Korean War Veteran who very appropriately served with the Duke of Wellington’s regiment, Ridgeway Special School where the plot has been cleared and prepared for use by children with special needs and various disabilities and Derek’s eco plot which is home to a colony of Great Crested Newts. These are amongst many other active plots worked regularly by lots of equally dedicated people who would be devastated to lose their hard work to the bulldozers. Bear in mind that any green field site takes at least 3 years hard work to turn it into an allotment. Why should anyone be expected to hand over perfectly good allotment land in exchange for a green field site and no doubt smaller plots? District Councillor Bill Gifford (LibDem Milverton) quite rightly said ‘if roads are driven through them it would leave them vulnerable to vandalism and make them almost unviable’. This is already happening to our sister allotments at Old Milverton and Cliffe because they are sited on Old Milverton Road. The allotment plots were given originally by the Heber Percys for the poor people of Leamington and the returning soldiers from the First World War. They were not given to become access roads to executive homes. If Warwick District Council voted to change the Local Plan and allow planning permission on allotments and Green Belt in North Leamington land that has been farmed for a thousand years would become an estate of expensive houses, we don’t believe they would ever be ‘affordable’. |
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DYNAMITE NEWS FOR B.L.A.S.T. |
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Great news from one of our staunch supporters, Bill Gifford, let's hope this follows through with the vote we all want on 16th June 2009 The Planning Officers at Warwick District Council have just published their report (3rd June) on the Core Strategy Preferred Options on where housing growth should go. The good news is that the officers do not suggest that the Allotment land and the Green Belt land to the north of Milverton should be used. The final decision will be made by councillors at the Council Meeting on Tuesday 16th June. This report by the Planning Department will mean that it is much more likely that the decision will be not to build on the Allotments or the Green Belt to the north of Milverton. I am sure that the strong opposition by Milverton residents, BLAST and the allotment holders to building on the Allotments and the Green Belt to the north of Milverton has been a major influence on the Planning Officers' report. I am much more hopeful of a sensible outcome and that is really due to the work put in by everyone. |
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TAYLOR WIMPEY CONTACT COURIER DECLARING INTEREST IN GREEN BELT |
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Taylor Wimpey contacted the Courier this week to announce it is interested in building homes on land in Old Miverton.
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OUTRAGE OVER GAGGING ORDER |
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The Courier has run a series of letters deploring the government gagging of local counciilors who have expressed support for our Campaign. Read more here |
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