Eastern Green masterplan reveals plan for thousands of homes and primary school near A45

New plans for thousands of homes on former green belt in Coventry



New plans have been submitted for thousands of homes on former green belt land in Coventry.

Hallam Land Management has submitted a revised bid for up to 2,400 homes at the site at Eastern Green, south of the A45.

It is a reduction from the number of houses submitted in an initial planning application in 2018, which earmarked up to 2,625 homes.

However, it is still greater than the 2,250 houses the site was allocated for in the council’s Local Plan when it was removed from the green belt in 2017.

Transport assessments also state the wider site could actually comprise of 3,495 houses – a staggering 55 per cent increase on what was originally planned.

Coventry City Council has previously told the Local Democracy Reporting Service the 2,250 allocation was always meant to be a “minimum”, however Coventry Conservatives have criticised the scale of the scheme, again reiterating a call to review housing needs in the Local Plan.

Leader of the group, Cllr Gary Ridley, said: “The plan now is for 2,400 houses but that is not for the entirety.

“The local plan said it was for up to 2,250 for the entire section but already it will be far greater.

“Planners need to rebuff the developers on this and come back with a more appropriate scheme.

“We have a climate emergency yet we are taking out huge numbers of trees on the green belt.

“All of this comes about because of very shaky ONS predictions.

“That is going to create an enormous strain on infrastructure and services. It would make far more sense to review the local plan.”

The scheme includes a new primary school, a district centre and smaller local centre, business units, and retirement housing or assisted living.

Revised plans increase the employment area from 10.25 hectares to 15 hectares, provides a larger three-form entry school, a safeguarded corridor dedicated to potential future public transport, and makes changes to some road layouts and tree buffers.

A new public consultation period runs until February 29.

Petition aims to block plans for homes on green belt land in Coventry



A petition has been launched which aims to persuade council chiefs to review Coventry’s development blueprint.

The Local Plan is a document which sets out how many homes and commercial premises should be built across the city and where.

But opponents say plans for thousands of homes on Green Belt land in the city should be abandoned in favour of building on brownfield sites - where previous development has already taken place.

New junctions and a flyover for the A45 were approved last month as part of controversial plans for 3,495 homes on former green belt land in Eastern Green.

The petition has been jointly launched by Coventry Conservative leader, Cllr Gary Ridley, and West Midlands Mayor Andy Street (Conservative), who argue a policy to build on brownfield sites should be introduced.

Mr Street - who earlier this year made a ‘Green Belt Pledge’ and wrote to Coventry City Council outlining his concerns - says Coventry's Local Plan is based on inaccurate numbers which predict massive population growth in Coventry of 31 per cent by 2031.

The petition calls for a comprehensive review of the Local Plan, which was adopted in 2018.

The document is due to be reviewed in 2021.

Cllr Ridley said: "This Local Plan will wreak irreversible damage to the City and its environment if there is not a change in direction.

“We are now seeing a wave of planning applications for green field sites at various stages through the planning process – with Kings Hill having been granted permission and others coming forward soon like Eastern Green where the Council has just given planning permission for the access junction. The attack on green field sites is coming thick and fast, left exposed by a Local Plan based on fundamentally flawed assumptions.

“By not having a sequential approach that requires the brownfield sites to be developed first the current Local Plan leaves green field sites first in the firing line.

“We want people to sign our petition to get the Local Plan comprehensively reviewed before it’s too late. Coventry should have a policy of building new homes on Brownfield sites first, which has been shown to work elsewhere in the West Midlands, but this plan is giving a green light to developers to target the countryside.”

You can sign the petition at http://www.protectcoventrysgreenspaces.co.uk

They have already started building new houses in Keresley you can see them from the Tamworth Rd

According to Vernon Coleman the UN have given figures of population for the UK by 2025 there will be only 14 million living in Britain not only Britain will the population fall but Germany America Australia too . I know population is falling as said on TED Talks said nations have cut right down on having children they have become more academic and wanting luxuries eg cars homes holidays gadgets.

...population for the UK by 2025 there will be only 14 million living in Britain...

Considering there is at least 70m here at the moment, that is one hell of a drop in a very short time span. Was any reason given for this Melisandre?

No there was nt any explanation but Vernon Coalman did mention other institutions saying the same.
The only other thing I can think of for these figures is what Talk TED said which is a university says most nations are not having many children because they want a better qualty life of holidays cars gadgets lower bills to pay also with the market collapsing will this make immigrants return back to their own countries plus the death rate of elderly and the sick and other factors.

Other than that war as China is investing heaverly in Africa they have sent their factories over there also putting in road infrastructures through Africa Google and others hsve out their business there too China is the only country ever to try and take over all land mass and all the oceans at the same time they are trying to take over the country I think it was Tiwan which allows shipping from the west to Australia New Zealand etc which they could stop all the ship trading through if this happens with China trying to buy tgem out this was on Australian news . In our news the other day it said China is going to teach Australia a lesson about Hong Kong so who knows .

This is the video for you.

Starting at 6.07

Thanks Melisandre.

After reading your previous post I went digging. I couldn't come up with figures quite as high, but there is certainly research out there that is indicating population drop and quite quickly.

Your very welcome Rebbonk I can only go on what I have watched . One man on the net suggested what if we had a packed like we had with the EU but instead with Canada New Zealand Australia and the UK which we could have freedom of movement with these countries.

I know from history Australia took in Asian mainly Chinese in the early days until they had enough British to work and live there they then threw out the Asian Chinese and sent them back those that remained were not allowed to work there any more.

Watching Australia news recent past because the Chinese have bought up so much land in Australia and businesses they have made a new law to prevent the Chinese doing this now. Yet the trouble in Hong Kong which they are now involved with they are offering these people residencies if they have an Australian pass port hence China in last weeks news saying they will teach Australia a lesson.

Huge homes plan on golf site in Coventry submitted



Plans have been submitted for 566 homes at Eastern Green in Coventry.

Developer Bracebridge Holdings said their bid on land adjacent to the Windmill Hotel and Golf Course provides “new housing in a sustainable location where housing is needed”.

The development contains a mix of one-bed flats to four-bed detached homes, whilst also provides 25 per cent affordable housing.

However residents have branded it “illogical” and “unnecessary destruction” of open space, with almost 7,000 signing petitions calling for a review of the council’s Local Plan and population figures it is based on.

“Surely the sensible thing to do is to consider that, what it might mean, then come back to these applications in the future,” said Conservative opposition leader Cllr Gary Ridley, who launched one of the two petitions.

“It seems to me that they are putting the cart before the horse in considering these applications before they consider the bigger issues. We are going to be stuck with this for a long time. Once the green belt is gone it’s gone forever and I don’t really see that it’s wrong to make sure that we get it right.”

Resident Peter Maddock labelled it “piecemeal” planning, while Steven Cox from the Allesley Green Residents’ Association said locals feel they are being “brushed aside”.

He added: “This is just another attempt to destroy a large area of important open space on the fringe of Coventry solely for the purpose of unnecessary housing.

“Fundamentally the allocation of 2,250 dwellings stipulated in the Local Plan for Eastern Green are developable within the adjacent Hallam site which is already for 2,400 dwellings, and the unnecessary destruction of this very popular recreational amenity should be refused.”

Mr Maddock said residents are also concerned about the size of the green buffer between new and existing homes , as well as the impact on roads and pollution.

He said: “With 566 homes and an average of two cars per home it is over 1,000 extra vehicles. The big traffic impact for the whole SUE will fall quite heavily on roads which are fairly chock-a-block already.”

The 40.52 hectare site – known as the Windmill Green site – is currently used as an 18-hole golf course, parking and storage.

Scheme for 2,400 homes gets go-ahead



Up to 2,400 homes will be built on former green belt land at Eastern Green in Coventry after developers were given the go-ahead.

Hallam Land Management’s scheme south of the A45 was given majority approval by Coventry City Council’s planning committee on Thursday.

Homes will be built across 61 hectares alongside employment land, a supermarket and a primary school.

The bid has proved highly divisive ever since the wider site was allocated for 2,250 homes in the Local Plan in 2017, with protesters in the meeting branding it “an invasion on the green belt”.