Policy is inadequate - 10% from renewables is inappropriate over a near 20 year plan. No developers of new Warrington homes should be allowed to get away with sub-standard solar installations - more solar panels needed. The word 'sustainable' is used as a buzzword throughout. It has no meaning or context.

Questions housing need of area. No Green Belt release is justified until all the opportunities for brownfield site redevelopment and building conversions have taken place. Exceptional circumstances must exist for release of Green Belt. There is no proof the situation is exceptional. Questions how often are brownfield sites re-assessed.

Plan states that car travel dominates - there is nothing going to prevent this. Building over 4,000 houses on the South East Urban Extension will lead to 10,000 more cars. Plan Talks only of roads and does not address the ship canal crossings which will be generated nor is the impact on Grappenhall, Thelwall, Stockton Heath etc. P245 it shows the huge scale of the SEWUE, twice the existing area and the loss of green land.

Thelwall Heys is seen as an early win ?without material impact on the [functioning]? Of the Green Belt. No Green Belt release is justified until all the opportunities for brownfield site redevelopment and building conversions have taken place. It is also stated on page 239 that the people who live there will be able to use a bus on Knutsford Rd or Stockport Rd. a) it is a very long walk for anyone not too good at walking, and b) buses on Knutsford Rd are very infrequent, Stockport Rd?s bus service was stopped some years ago.

Questions intention to increase office supply in the Town Centre. There should be no more retail park needs, due to more online selling. Office and retail building should be converted to homes or other employment. There is a recognition that homes will come before infrastructure when it should be the other way round, and there is no definition of ?extensive new? infrastructure that is referred to.

?6/56 meets a large proportion of B8 requirements? What are those requirements? In fact 6/56 will take up a huge amount of Green Belt and is intended as a logistics site. Logistics means more lorries and van traffic by a very busy motorway junction, which spills over onto South Warrington roads regularly. It will provide few jobs. It is not needed at all ? there are huge sites already empty on neighbouring Appleton Thorn and other sites around Warrington.

?Affordable? housing. Another buzzword which is almost always watered down or ignored in what is delivered after it has got planning approval. Statements 2/3 seem arbitrary and plucked out of the air. Clauses 8/9 are the get out clauses. The need for affordable is demonstrated. It is stated the need for older people will grow 50% and 1000 extra care home beds will be required (against the backdrop of current under performance)

Employment needs ? warehousing and distribution. a) Appleton Stretton top of the list but where will the workforce come from? No release of 137ha should be sanctioned when there is empty space at plenty of existing sites.

There should be conversion of vacant retail and offices before any new build.

5% of Green Belt being released, but how much is it if ?Insets and settlements? are included? The term ?washed over? is used from 5.1.20 onwards what exactly does that mean? (probably people?s concern about Green Belt destruction)

No firm proposals on transport in plan.

Warrington should not authorise any more coal/gas/petroleum activity and should seek to end existing extractions.

Air quality will deteriorate with this plan, not improve.

Gives the impression that there will be a chance to influence infrastructure prior to homes being constructed in 2025. Then why is Urban Splash at Grappenhall Heys happening now?

Connections across Bridgewater and Ship canals looks like a minor issue which will be forgotten. Point 37 uses the word ?should? when it must be ?must?.

Fiddlers Ferry is misleading everyone, the plan is to release 82ha of Green land. There is no mention of a clean-up of contaminated land either.

Development at Pool Lane basically will make Statham an extension of urban Lymm.