WILLOUGHBY

Stand Against Lodge Farm (SALFV) has produced a flyer to provide information about the impact on the Leam and Rainsbrook Valleys and all the surrounding villages, if Lodge Farm is included as an allocation in the Regulation 19 Submission Plan due out towards the end of the year.

Please click here to read the leaflet and come to the Annual Community Meeting on Tuesday, 29 April to listen to John Tautu’s presentation, to ask questions and to find out how to respond to the consultation.

Agenda

1. Approve minutes for 7 May 2024

2. RBC Local Plan Consultation and Lodge Farm

3. Community Action Report 2025

4. Issues residents would like to raise

Please bring your family, friends and neighbours.

Click here for more information.

The consultation started on 24 March and runs until 19 May. Residents are invited to give their views. Rugby Borough Council’s Preferred Option is for a dispersal model of building houses in and around Rugby and large villages to the north rather than a large new settlement. BUT a new, much larger Lodge Farm of over 2,500 houses has been included in the Call for Sites and the Sustainability Appraisal documents so, in the future following the consultation, the Local Plan could potentially have a major impact on the residents of Willoughby and the surrounding villages. SALFV (Stand Against Lodge Farm), the group that successfully campaigned to have Lodge Farm removed from the Local Plan in 2019, will provide more information soon about their strategy to, once again, have this removed.

Click on Read More for more information about the consultation and links to a few key documents.

Our annual meeting is at 7.00 pm in the Village Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to celebrate community successes over the past year or so and to discuss matters that residents would like to raise, including concerns and possible future projects. More information about the meeting will be in the Willoughby Monthly, on Facebook, on this website, and on the noticeboard in April.

The Preferred Options Draft Plan March 2025 has been published and will run from 2024 - 2045. It will go out for consultation towards the end of March.

Click here to read the plan.

The map on page 7 gives an overview of allocations. Pages 14 and 15 list the proposed locations for residential and employment sites and the maps in the appendices provide more detailed information about allocations.

We are delighted that Grahame has agreed to join the Parish Council. He was co-opted onto the Parish Council at the meeting on 4 February 2025. We now have five councillors after a lengthy period with only four.

Grahame moved to Willoughby in late November 2024 and lives at Manor Farm Barns. He was both a parish councillor and a district councillor in Oxfordshire before moving abroad some years ago. You will have the opportunity to meet Grahame at Parish Council meetings and at the Annual Community Meeting.