I disagree. The vision should stress that the Green Belt between Balsall Common and Coventry - the narrowest part of the Meriden Gap - will have been protected.

Paragraph 86 states that an alternative route by-passing Balsall Common will have been provided. It assumes that this will be within the Borough - probably through the Barrett's farm parcel - which need not be the case. Coventry have plans for a new road from the A46 near Kenilworth, past Warwick University and Burton Green and linking to the A45. This road will remove much through traffic from the village and no other by-pass should be considered until Coventry's plans are finalised.

The vision states that new housing will have been built in Dorridge but none is identified in the rest of the plan.

The vision does not explain how the impact of building and on-going use of HS2 will be minimised. Balsall Common will be affected more than any other part of the region apart from the Hub itself and needs more extreme protection.

The Vision and Spatial Strategy would perhaps be more honest if it declared that sustaining this part of the Meriden Gap is impossible and would not be attempted. If this is not the policy, this must be stated clearly, and every effort must be made to protect it and the Draft Plan is totally deficient in this regard.