Tanworth in Arden Residents and Neighbourhood Watch Association

Stratford District Council is working jointly with Warwick District Council to prepare a new Local Plan for all of South Warwickshire to help meet housing requirements and employment opportunities up to 2050. The existing plan was adopted in 2015.

The new plan will cost an estimated £2.2 million. It will not be immediately affected by the Government’s plans to introduce Unitary Authorities.

A committee of both councils met last December and agreed to begin another public consultation. Comments needed to be made by Friday 7 March.

You can find more details and make your views known on the proposals at:

https://southwarwickshire.oc2.uk/document/148

It is a very long report but, among other things, it suggests 12 locations for possible major new settlements.

Two have been identified that could affect us considerably – one east of Wood End and one south of Tanworth. They are both described as “less suitable” than Long Marston or Lighthorne Heath/Gaydon but they are still being put forward as worth consideration.

In 2015 a Planning Inspector rejected the previous Local Plan because Stratford District tried to disperse housing across sites, some in Green Belt, rather than use Long Marston and Gaydon.

However, the councils are in the process of undertaking a review of Green Belt which is never good news.

If you wish to comment you need to Register and Log in. You can then go through the report responding to each proposal and each site one at a time. You do not need to read the whole report just the parts you think relevant to the future of Tanworth.

(Source: Tom Ross)

Warwickshire County Council report major problems for the gritting lorries some icy evenings negotiating parked cars outside the Bell and on the bend at the School.

WCC say their drivers often have to approach some residents and visitors to the pub asking them to move their cars, but sometimes encounter some hostility and resistance.

A letter was sent last winter to all the properties on Doctor’s Hill to explain the problem and to warn that any future lack of co-operation could lead to gritting being withdrawn.

(Source: Tom Ross)

Following representations by this Association Warwickshire County Council has now reduced the speed limit on most of Well Lane to 20mph.

It is hoped this will allow safer access to the new Cank Farm development and encourage drivers to slow down as they approach the village.

Discussions will now take place with the County Council to introduce measures to slow down traffic and improve the safety of Well Lane near the church and at other points in the village..

(Source: Tom Ross)

A resident on Vicarage Hill reports that his house was visited by two men claiming to work for Severn Trent on Thursday 28 March. They asked to examine drains on the property and then left.

Subsequent enquires of Severn Trent and Warwickshire Police have confirmed their were not what they said they were. Severn Trent said they would always write to a householder in the first instance and would never just turn up at a property.

Residents are warned to be on the lookout for any suspicious callers even if they seem to have ID or uniforms of some kind.

(Source: Tom Ross)

The Liberal Democrats have taken control of Stratford District Council from the Conservatives. The new Council comprises:

Liberal Democrats 25

Conservatives 12

Greens 3

Independents 1

The result of the contest in Tanworth-in-Arden ward to replace Tony Dixon on Stratford District Council:

Lynda ORGAN  Conservative 585 ELECTED

Karyl REES  Liberal Democrat 121

Lil JOHNSTON   Green 77

Bob EDWARDS    Labour 67

Turnout : 31.29% District Average: 39.29%

The following six candidates have been elected as Parish Councillors for Tanworth ward.

Ollie MUNTZ 263

Michael SAUNDERS 253

Tom ROSS 244

David COWAN 231

John BROUGHAM 203

Leila CHAUDRY 165

Not Elected

Louise PHILLIPS 139

Residents on Poolhead Lane, and parts of the north side of Broad Lane, who are members of Tanworth Residents, were not able to vote in this election as they are technically in Earlswood ward.

In a separate matter, the past Chair of the Parish Council, Dave Burgess, has resigned from his post and the Council. The Earlswood vacancy will be advertised soon. If there are no applications it will be filled by co-option of anyone resident in the parish who wishes to volunteer.

(Source:  Stratford Herald)