UPSVLP 2595
The Plan fails to meet the requirements of national policy in the NPPF.
N/A.
The Plan should be revisited in full and subject to furtehr public consultation.
Whole Plan soundness
There should be NO plan for further housing numbers beyond the Plan period, as the numbers have been removed from the Plan.
In terms of the SEWUE there is still the potential for a furtehr 1,800 homes to be built outside of the plan period. These means that effective the proposals remain the same, just the timeline has moved. This applies to the wider Plan as a whole.
There is no exceptional circumstance which justifies 'releasing' the land around Stretton village from the Green Belt. Increasing development within south Warrington does not represent sound judement when congestion is already an issue.
The identity of each village should be protected. The land arround Stretton should not be removed from the Green Belt. There should be no building on the Green Belt until all brownfield sites have been developed first and this should be the leading strategy for the Local Plan.
The SEWUE will destroy the lovely individual and historic villages, which distinguish south Warrington and create a huge sprawl of high density housing on valuable Green Belt land. This will lose the identity of each village. The area around Stretton village should be protected and remain in the Green belt. There is no exceptional circumstance to do this. Any building on this land will result in over-capacity at the Cat & Lion junction and beyond. It will also increase the dangerous "rat-run" along Stretton Road and Hatton Lane.
The Plan as a whole is highly ambitious and is unnecessary it its scale, particularly in respect of the SEWUE.