1500 houses next to Grandborough?

A message to local cyclists from one of the leaders of the protest movement

Dear Cyclist,
You may have heard of the Rugby Draft Local Plan. The Local plan is to designate future preferred development sites in the Rugby area. A recent change to the Draft Plan was the removal of a 1500 home site at Walsgrave (Binley Woods Ward), together with a new local employment site, and replacing it with a 1500 home site at Lodge Farm CV23 8AH in the Grandborough Parish (Leam Valley Ward) off the A45. This is to meet a Coventry housing shortfall. Obviously the local communities are pretty upset about this proposal and we need your help to defeat it.
There are information evenings at Braunston Village Hall on Tues 20th Sept and Dunchurch Village Hall on Weds 28th Sept. 7.30pm. There is a protest rally at 11am 1/10/16 at Tollgate Farm, CV23 8AH Grandborough turn A45. It would be spectacular if loads of cyclists turned up to make your protest too!! We are hoping to get 500-1000 people to turn up. TV and Radio and the Rugby Advertiser should be there..... bring everyone you can think of..... an hour of your Saturday morning would help us enormously..... it would give you loads of brownie points with locals and they may even be nicer to cyclists on the lanes as they will owe you.... I do know some car drivers can be arrogant and impatient.... I ride a bike too.
The proposed “Lodge Farm Garden Village” is completely unsustainable and it contravenes many parts of the Governments own publication “The National Planning Policy Framework”, particularly referenced to paragraphs 30,34,35,37,52,75,95 and 112.available online. Cycling around the country lanes and villages will become increasingly dangerous with around 3000 more cars using them. Many will be trying to access the M1/M6/A14/A5/DIRFT/ Dunchurch/ ugby/M40/Leamington/ Warwick/Southam etc.
If you wish to make an objection you can do so between 26th Sept16 and the closing date 11thNov16. To Victoria Chapman Town Hall Evreux Way CV21 2RR .Re Draft Local Plan, Lodge Farm Ref. DS10 Site DS3.15.
Good points to make are site location is unsustainable, cars are required to access employment, amenities, senior schooling, hospital health care, shopping. No local employment. Roads unsuitable for cyclists, walkers, air pollution increase in Dunchurch, loss of 260 acres of farmland and wildlife habitats. Country lanes made more dangerous with conflicting road users. You should also ask why the Walsgrave site was removed and ask for it to be reinstated. More information can also be found on https://facebook.com/SALFGV or www.salfv.org