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Representation ID: 15011

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: IM LAND - Land at Rumbush Lane, Earlswood

Agent: Turley

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Evidence for alternative site, CFS 554 at Rumbush Lane:
- Single land ownership
- Highly sustainable location, immediately adjacent to Earlswood station
- Development opportunity comprises land located in Stratford-on-Avon’s district boundary.
- Site been promoted in 2016 and 2019 DLP Reg. 18 consultations
- Previous submissions focussed on much wider site area, approx. 90-95 ha around Earlswood station. Site been reduced in scale, see CFS 554 compared to CFS 141 and updated Vision document.
- Vision Document shows site can provide:
o Up to 62 homes for older persons accommodation
o Landscape buffer to prevent coalescence
o Opportunity for community shop with café, shop, hairdressers to support C2/C3 uses
o Up to 5.88ha of public open space
o Enhancements to PROW
o Creation of village green
o Stratified movement hierarchy with multiple points of access
o Adjacent to under-utilised railway station, 25 mins from Birmingham and Stratford upon Avon.

Furthermore, GL Hearn Strategic Growth Study (2018) identified broad, non-specific area between Birmingham and Stratford upon Avon as potential for a new settlement, such as location of CFS 141/554.

Wider potential:
- Opportunity to expand development in SDC – See Vision document and appendix 3. Potential for 74 additional homes.
- Total 136 new homes plus 1.37ha of older persons accommodation, and up to 7.54 ha of public open space OR
- 116 homes, plus 1.94 ha of older persons accommodation and up to 7.54ha of POS