WILLOUGHBY
Parish
Council
Rugby Borough Local Plan Review
Preferred Option Consultation
28 March 2025
Posted:
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.
The first link is to Rugby Borough Council’s consultation webpage where all the relevant information and documents can be found.
Rugby Borough Consultation webpage
https://www.rugby.gov.uk/pl/local-plan-review-preferred-options-consultation
The document below is the final version of the consultation document.
Preferred Option Consultation Document
Although the consultation document above describes Rugby Borough Council’s Preferred Option for reaching their housing and employment targets, they are required to consider alternative strategies as well. The document below outlines 5 ‘scenarios’ (from page 45 onwards) and describes the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Alternative Development Strategies
Paragraphs 5.4.80 and 5.4.81 on page 34 particularly relate to the possible resurrection of Lodge Farm as a new, much larger settlement of over 2,500 houses on both sides of the A45 on the way to Dunchurch. Page 43 provides a map and, as above, the sustainability of the 5 scenarios is assessed from page 45 onwards.
Evidence Base
The call for sites document lists the development sites eventually selected from the hundreds of potential sites put forward for development by landowners and developers. Lodge Farm is Site 73 and includes documents from St Modwen.
Consultation
There will be a Virtual Q and A consultation event on 10 April from 1.00pm - 2.00pm
You can give your views on the Preferred Option via the online questionnaire.
Alternatively, comments may be made:
by email to localplan@rugby.gov.uk with ‘Preferred Option Consultation’ in the subject line, or
by post to: Preferred Option Consultation, Development Strategy Team, Town Hall, Evreux Way, Rugby, CV21 2RR
Please include the relevant policy reference with any comments. You must also include your full name and postal address with email and postal comments.