Stratford District Core Strategy – response to Inspector

Stratford-on-Avon District Council's Full Council has today, Monday 20 July, agreed a revised housing target for the District of 14,480.

Responding to the findings of the Planning Inspector's interim report into the District Council's Core Strategy – the key planning document, which will help shape development in the District until 2031, the District Council has recommended the following sites as providing the most appropriate balance and mix:

• Long Marston Airfield (3,500 homes, with 2,100 built by 2031)
• Gaydon/Lighthorne Heath (3,000 homes, with 2,300 built by 2031)
• Canal Quarter Regeneration Zone (1,000 homes, with 650 built by 2031 of which 82 units now committed at Warwick House)
• Land off Bishopton Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon (around 450 homes)
• Land off Daventry Road, Southam (around 500 homes)
• Land off Alcester Road, Stratford-upon-Avon (as a component of revised Proposal SUA.2 providing around 65 homes)

Councillor Chris Saint, Leader of Stratford-on-Avon District Council says: “The Planning Inspector gave us clear guidance about the work to be undertaken to make our plan sound.  We have identified a clear way forward, in terms of the scale of the housing development that is needed to support the creation of new jobs locally and the preferred options for accommodating this, and this will shortly be going forward for consultation."