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Save Coventry's Greenbelt
Map from
OpenStreetMap
Blue = Green belt land that is to “Consider
for detailed Study”
Coventry City PPG2 Purposes. Figure 3.1
These blue areas are Green Belt parcels.
WARNING! Please understand..this is my 1st effort, so boundary lines are not
house by house specific, I have tried to follow roads and rivers as much as
possible, but the although some of the boundaries are meandering, particularly
in the more central areas, my feeble effort accentuates that.
I will endeavour to give you a more accurate picture of the current proposals
and the few remaining areas of retained Green Belt as soon as I have practised a
bit more.
The current Planning Inquiry is dealing with the “least contained parcels” that
are fewer in number that suuround the current city borders
I decided that it would be more important for you to see what is down the line
in the wider Green Belt area if this “Removal from Green Belt” is given the go
ahead. As you will see “wider” is the right word.
Note the land to the East of Kenilworth, Harvest Hill to the North West, beyond
the M6 to the North East, & Coombe Fields to the East.
However, once permission is granted for them, these Blue parcels are the next
areas to “Consider for Detailed Study”
And I have seen representations from builders who say that “http://www.coventry.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=21345032
7000 Bedworth & Nuneaton
7. In terms of the six sites proposed by the Council for removal from the Green
Belt, it
would appear that the Council have restricted their search to the 'least
constrained
parcels' of Green Belt land identified in the Coventry Joint Green Belt Study (SSR
Planning, January 2009).
8. We are of the view that this approach fails the tests of soundness for the
reasons set
out below.
9. According to the Council's figures the shortfall between the capacity of
available
urban land (22, 760) and the emerging housing requirement (33, 500) is 10, 740
dwellings. Given the extent of the shortfall and the anticipated availability of
Green
Belt land in Coventry it is surprising that only capacity for 3750 dwellings has
been
identified, with 7000 to be found in Nuneaton and Bedworth and Warwick
Districts.
The actual level of available Green Belt land is not known because the Council's
SHLAA also restricts itself geographically in line with the 'least constrained
parcels'
identified in the Joint Green Belt Study - the Core Strategy inspector will need
to
draw his or her own conclusions as to the adequacy of this approach.
10. As a consequence there is a significant reliance on sites beyond the
administrative
boundary of Coventry. There does not appear to be any provision or commitment in
the Core Strategy (or in other local development documents scheduled in the
Council's local development scheme) for joint working with Nuneaton and Bedworth
and Warwick Districts in order to facilitate the delivery of these 7000
dwellings.
11. In order to ensure that as far as is possible the Council have greater
control over the
delivery of its housing requirement we would have expected the Council to seek
to
maximise the provision of housing within its own administrative boundary.
12. In doing so the Council would need to have undertaken a more sophisticated
assessment of the Green Belt boundaries and all of the available land within the
administrative boundary of Coventry rather than limiting the search to the
'least
constrained parcels' identified in the Joint Green Belt Study.”
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