Evidence Base

The Evidence Base is a collection of reports which will be used to inform the Council’s emerging policies. The evidence is divided below into five different categories (Participation, Research, Other Strategies, National Policy, and Monitoring). This list will be added to as new documents become available during the forward planning process.

Please note some of these documents are large file sizes and may take time to download.

Participation (Consultation Responses)

New Local Plan

• Issues & Scenarios - Report of Public Consultation (626kb, PDF) 
• Issues & Scenarios - Report of Local Resident Survey (3.6mb, PDF)

Core Strategy (Superceded)

• Alternative Sites: Report of Public Consultation (464kb, PDF)
• Preferred Options Paper: Report of Public Consultation (2.3mb, PDF)
• Issues Paper: Report of Public Consultation (505kb, PDF)
• Options Paper: Report of Public Consultation (702kb, PDF)

Other consultations

• Place, partnership and residents surveys 

Research

Infrastructure

• Draft Infrastructure Plan - May 2012 (314kb, PDF)

Strategic Transport Assessments

• Phase 2 - Report and Appendices A - D (3.7mb, PDF)
• Phase 2 Appendix E - Part 1 (3.7mb, PDF), Part 2 (3.9mb, PDF), Part 3 (3.3mb, PDF), Part 4 (1.5mb, PDF), Part 5 (1.3mb, PDF)
• Phase 2 - Appendix F (1.7mb, PDF)
• Strategic Transport Assessment - Modelling Results (3.82mb, PDF) & Appendices (2.68mb, PDF)
• Strategic Transport Assessment Overview Report March 2012 (1.8mb, PDF)
• Strategic Transport Assessment August 2011 (490kb, PDF)

Economy & Employment

• Economic and Demographic Forecasts Study 2012 (1.2mb, PDF)
• Warwick District Employment Land Review 2009 (3.8mb, PDF)
• Warwick District Employment Land Review Addendum 2011 (PDF 893KB)  

Retail

• Retail and Leisure Study 2009 Volume 1: Main Report (2.6mb, PDF),
• Volume 2: Appendices (2.9mb,PDF)
• Volume 3: Surveys (3.7mb,PDF)
• Volume 4: Opportunity Site Assessment (2.6mb, PDF)     

Housing

• Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) 2012   
• Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) 2012 (2mb, PDF) and Executive Summary (641kb, PDF)
• Warwickshire Local Investment Plan 2011 (1.3mb, PDF)  
• Evidence of Local Need and Historic Demand for Gypsy and Traveller Sites in Warwick District April 2011 
• Estimation of Windfall Allowance: New Local Plan Preferred Options Stage (106kb, PDF)
• Affordable Housing Viability Assessment November 2011 (1.9mb, PDF)
• Gypsy and Travellers Accomodation Needs Assessment 2012

Built Environment

• Garden Towns, Villages and Suburbs - A prospectus for Warwick District Council (2.42mb, PDF)

Green Infrastructure (see also Landscape)

• Green Infrastructure Study
• Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull GI Study July 2011 (838kb, PDF)
• Strategic Green Infrastructure Delivery Assessment (2.69mb, PDF)

Inclusive, Safe & Healthy, Safe & Active

• The Parks and Open Spaces Audit 2008
• Sports Pitches and Indoor Facilities Study – to be completed
• Greenspace Strategy - Draft (336kb, PDF)

Community Facilities

• Survey of Rural Services 2009 (550kb, PDF)

Historic Environment

• Urban Conservation Area Statements
• Rural Conservation Area Leaflets
• Register of  Listed Buildings, & Historic Parks and Gardens & Scheduled Monuments
• Warwickshire Historic Landscape Characterisation 2010 (11.2mb, PDF)
• Warwickshire Historic Farmstead Characterisation 2010

Landscape & Green Belt

• Considerations for Sustainable Landscape Planning (3.8mb, PDF) and Appendices (3.1mb, PDF)
• Landscape Character Assessment for South of Warwick and Leamington (1.2mb, PDF) and Appendices (3.8mb, PDF)
• Joint Green Belt Review

Biodiversity

• Warwick District Habitat Assessment (3.4mb, PDF) 
• Habitat Biodiversity Audit
• Register of Sites of Special Scientific Importance (SSSIs) & Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) & Ancient Woodland

Climate Change, Low Carbon & Renewable Energy

• Renewables Resource Assessment (3.37mb, PDF) and Appendices (PDF 1.4 MB)  
• Climate Change Adaptation Study (2.7mb, PDF)
• Low Carbon Action Plan 2012 (1.36mb, PDF)

Flooding & Water

• Water Cycle Study pdf (2.52mb, PDF)
• Strategic Flood Risk Assessment

Other Strategies

• Warwick District's Sustainable Community Strategy 2009 - 2026
• West Midlands Economic Strategy  
• Coventry, Solihull, Warwickshire Hi-Tech Corridor Strategy Document 2006-2008

• Warwick District Tourism Strategy (169kb, PDF) and Action Plan (71kb, PDF)
• West Midlands Visitor Economy Strategy 2008
• West Midlands Rural Economy Study 2008  
   
• Warwickshire Black & Minority Ethnic Housing Needs Study 2005 (1.6mb. PDF)
• Warwick District Homelessness Strategy 2005
• Play Strategy 2007-2012 (Flash version)

• South Warwickshire Partnership Plan 2008 – 2011
• Evening Economy Strategy – to be completed 
• Warwickshire Local Transport Plan 2011 - 2026 (LTP3)  
• Warwickshire Landscape Guidelines
• Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull Local Biodiversity Action Plan and Strategy

• Biodiversity 2020: A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services
• Natural Environment White Paper
• West Midlands Regional Energy Strategy 2004 (417kb, PDF)
  
• River Severn Basin Management Plan
• Contaminated Land Strategy (442kb, PDF)
• Air Quality Strategy (44kb, PDF)

National Planning Policies

• National Planning Policy Framework 

Monitoring 

• Annual Monitoring Report
• Housing and Employment Monitoring Reports
• Quality of Life in Warwickshire Reports
• Localities Profiles (2011) for Warwick District (3.95mb, PDF)
• Warwickshire Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (2.9mb, PDF)

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