Serious health issues for all

District councillors have effectively made a decision in less than two weeks on changing the face of our towns for ever.

No amendments were suggested on Wednesday that might have ensured the plan met local housing needs.

Sadly, it contains get-out clauses for developers, such as paying a financial contribution to the council rather than building the required number of affordable homes.

Warwick, Leamington and Whitnash will all suffer. Thousands of new homes built south of our towns. New employment land will be built south of Coventry.

No new north-south roads will be built.

It will inevitably lead to extra traffic generation with more queuing and even greater air pollution in the town centres, already above legal safe levels in certain areas.

This plan includes serious future health issues for our residents, particularly the young and the elderly, and we will be raising this with the county council’s public health department.