Local Plan approval means thousands of houses will be built in Warwick district
The plan includes 13,000 new homes to be built across the area by 2029, which will make up a total of 16,776 taking into account projects which have already started or have been completed since 2011.
Of this total, 5,000 of the homes will be affordable - defined by Government as houses with mortgage repayments below the local market value.
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Hide AdAlmost all those councillors who were at the meeting voted in favour of adopting the modified plan with only a few abstentions and none against.
Before this, councillors heard from some of those objecting to the plan.
Peter Langley of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) said the campaign had been trying to secure “a more realistic, balanced and environmentally sensitive Local Plan”.
He added: “We believe the present plan is none of those things because it treats housing and employment growth as more or less the be all and end all.
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