The redevelopment of this large brownfield site should be a priority over potential green belt sites.

The release of green belt land at Thelwall Heys will be detrimental to the people in the surrounding communities. Development on this land is wholly unnecessary. Insufficient infrastructure to support development.

Object due to impact on wildlife ancient woodlands and conservation areas and in the context of climate and ecological emergency. Other options for the SEWUE would have less of an impact on ecosystems, e.g. Option 4.

Policy ENV7 tackling renewable energy could be strengthened to take greater consideration of upcoming building standards. The Future Homes Standard is to be enforced from 2025 and upcoming changes to the Part L Building Regulations will take effect in 2023. The Future Homes Standard sets out that new buildings should be zero-carbon ready and will not be built with fossil fuel heating. 10% minimum standard for renewable/low carbon sources for new developments is limited. I feel Warrington should be implementing policies that go above and beyond current minimum requirements for carbon reductions and seek to build new developments that are as close to zero-carbon as possible.

The exploitation of fossil fuels is environmentally unacceptable under the context of a climate emergency. The policies within the Plan are far too permissive, when taking UK legal targets and the Paris Agreement into account. We face an immense task of combatting the damage that has already been inflicted through combustion of fossil fuels, and therefore feel it is not acceptable to be permitting further damage to be done. It is contradictory both to the climate ambitions of the Council, and to the other policies within the Plan (e.g. Policy ENV7) to allow the extraction of fossil fuels within the Borough. I suggest far more rigorous control on such policies to limit this from taking place and suggest the policies for hydrocarbons are treated in a similar manner to peat extraction.