WILLOUGHBY

The report was presented at the Annual Community Meeting on 29 April 2025 to celebrate the many volunteers who give their thought and time to making Willoughby the very special community it is today.

Click here to read the report.

TOMORROW Tuesday 29 April 2025

at 7.00 pm in the Village Hall

Come and listen to John Tautu, Leader of the Stand Against Lodge Farm (SALFV) campaign group, describing the risks if Lodge Farm (a housing estate of 2,650 homes, one field away from Willoughby) is included in the next version of the Local Plan.

To lodge your objection to Lodge Farm - you can write your own objection and send it to Rugby Borough Council OR select and sign one of SALFV’s template objection letters. These will be available at the meeting.

Click here for more information.

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.