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 updated as new documents become available during the forward planning process.
Participation (Consultation Responses)
New Local Plan
- Publication Draft - Public Participation Report (4.2mb, PDF)
- Publication Draft - Focused Changes - Public Participation Report (481kb, PDF)
- Preferred Options (Part 2), Revised Development Strategy and Village Sites and Settlement Boundaries May 2014 (3mb, PDF)
- Preferred Options - Report of Public Consultation - Part 1 (658kb, PDF)
- 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Core Strategy (Superceded)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)
Research
Sustainability Appraisal
- Sustainability Appraisal Addendum Report 2016 (2.46MB, PDF)
- Publication Draft SA Report (1.2mb, PDF)
- Publication Draft SA Non Technical Summary (209kb, PDF)
- Publication Draft SA Appendices (3.7mb, PDF)
- Stratford Road Employment Site (71kb, PDF)
- Sub Regional Employment Land Site (90kb, PDF)
- Stratford Road Gypsy and Traveller Site (71kb, PDF)
- Sustainability Appraisal - Potential Village Site Allocations (482kb, PDF)
- Final Interim Sustainability Appraisal Report - June 2013 (1MB, PDF)
- Site Selection Methodology - April 2014 (250kb, PDF)
- Sustainability Appraisal of Gypsy and Traveller Sites (638kb, PDF)
- Sustainability Appraisal of Gypsy & Traveller Site Allocations - Appendix V (136kb, PDF)
Infrastructure
- Draft Infrastructure Plan - April 2014 (224kb, PDF)
- Community Infrastructure Levy - Viability Study (3.7MB, PDF)
- Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan - March 2016 (739KB, PDF)
Strategic Transport Assessments
Phase 4
- Strategic Transport Assessment Phase 4 - Revised Development Allocation
Testing (5.5mb, PDF) - Strategic Transport Assessment - Cumulative Assessment (5.5mb, PDF)
- Strategic Transport Assessment - Final Phase Assessment of Additional Housing Allocations - Feb 2016 (9mb, PDF)
Phase 3
- Phase 3 - Report (3.6MB, PDF)
- Phase 3 - Appendices A - C (4MB, PDF)
- Phase 3 - Appendix D (1.3MB, PDF)
- Phase 3 - Appendix E (2.6MB, PDF)
- Phase 3 - Appendices F - H (3.3MB, PDF)
Phase 2
- 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)
Phase 1
- Strategic Transport Assessment - Modelling Results (3.82MB, PDF) & Appendices (2.68MB, PDF) v
- Strategic Transport Assessment Overview Report March 2012 (1.8MB, PDF)
- Strategic Transport Assessment August 2011 (490kb, PDF)
Highways Advice
Economy & Employment
- Coventry and Warwickshire Employment Land Use Study - June 2015 (1.4MB, PDF)
- Coventry & Warwickshire Strategic Employment Study October 2014 (2mb, PDF)
- Warwick District Employment Land Review 2013 (833kb, PDF)
- Warwick District Employment Land Review 2009 (3.8MB, PDF)
- Warwick District Employment Land Review Addendum 2011 (PDF 893KB)
- Retail and Leisure Study 2014 (5mb, PDF)
- Warwick District Retail and Leisure Study - Appendix 3 Household Survey Report (PDF, 1.3mb)
Housing
- Distribution of Development-Strategy Paper 2016 (177kb, PDF)
- Coventry & Warwickshire Joint Strategic Housing Market Assessment - November 2013 (3.1MB, PDF)
- Joint SHMA Addendum - 2012-based Sub-National Population Projections & Economic Forecasts: Implications for Housing Need in Coventry & Warwickshire (690kb, PDF)
- Updated Assessment of Housing Need in Coventry & Warwickshire HMA - September 2015 (2.1mb, PDF)
- Estimating a Windfall Allowance: Publication Stage - April 2014 (461kb, PDF)
- Local Plan Housing Trajectory May 2014 (222kb, PDF) and Housing Trajectory Sites (140kb, PDF)
- Local Plan Housing Trajectory updated February 2016 (199kb, PDF)
- Warwick additional sites viability assessment November 2015 (891kb, PDF)
- Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)
- Economic and Demographic Forecasts Study 2012 (1.2MB, PDF)
- Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) 2012 (2MB, PDF) and Executive Summary (641kb, PDF)
- Warwickshire Local Investment Plan 2011 (1.3MB, PDF)
- Affordable Housing Viability Assessment November 2011 (1.9MB, PDF)
- Houses in Multiple Occupation in Warwick District - November 2013, (1.15mb, PDF)
- Gypsy and Travellers Accommodation Needs Assessment 2012
- Gypsy and Traveller Site Assessments (2.21mb, PDF)
- Gypsy and Traveller Site Assessments, August 2014 (188kb, PDF)
- Advice for Warwick District Council on GTAA household formation V2 (149kb, PDF)
- 2016 Modifications Site selection methodology update (140kb, Excel xlxs)
- Warwick District - An update of the Five Year Housing Land Supply - March 2016 (73KB, PDF)
- Housing Trajectory Sites for 5 yrs - March 2016 (125KB, xls)
Villages
- Villages Settlement Hierarchy June 2013 - Report (141kb, PDF)
- Villages Settlement Hierarchy June 2013 - Appendices (2.8MB, PDF)
- Villages Settlement Hierarchy June 2013 - Figure 1 - Model (47kb, PDF)
- Appendix 7 Revised May 2014 - Village Housing Apportionment (76kb, PDF)
- Village Profile and Housing Allocations - February 2016 (3.9mb, PDF)
Prepared to inform Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundary Consultation
- Appendix 1 - Map of Lower Super Output Areas (3MB, PDF)
- Appendix 2 - Rural Districts and Age Profiles (21kb, PDF)
- Appendix 3 - Statistical Profiles - (303kb, PDF)
- Appendix 4 - Summary of Representation to Revised Development Strategy (85kb, PDF)
- Appendix 5 - Summary of Housing Needs Surveys (9kb, PDF)
- Appendix 6 - Site Appraisal Matrix - Part A (1.3MB, PDF)
- Appendix 7 - Landscape Sensitivity and Ecological & Geological Study (8MB, PDF)
- Appendix 8 - Green Belt and Green Field Review (8MB, PDF)
- Appendix 9 - Green Belt Critical Review (1.6MB, PDF)
- SHLAA - Village Sites Update 2013
Updates to Village Evidence Base - April 2014
- Green Belt and Green Field Review - Parcel Update April 2014
- Village Sites Appraisal Matrix - April 2014
- Landscape Sensitivity and Ecological & Geological Study - Landscape Assessment Update April 2014
Update to Village Evidence Base - January 2016
- Landscape Sensitivity and Ecological & Geological Study - Landscape Addendum January 2016 (280kb, PDF)
- Village Sites Appraisal Matrix 2016 (737kb, PDF)
Built Environment
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
- Indoor Sports and Leisure Strategy
- Greenspace Strategy (552kb, 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
- The Setting of Heritage Assets - Gallows Hill (5MB, PDF)
- The Setting of Heritage Assets - The Asps (7MB, PDF)
- Thickthorn (South-east Kenilworth) Strategic Allocations - Historic Environment Appraisal (4mb, PDF)
- HE06 Woodcote House - The Setting of Heritage Assets (200kb, PDF)
- Heritage Assets review (Additional Site Allocations) Report (3.7mb, PDF) & Appendices A and B (3.2mb, PDF) & Figures (3.7mb, PDF)
- Heritage Assets review (Local Plan Site Allocations) Report (2.62mb PDF)
- Hampton Road, Warwick Historic Assessment (2.7mb, PDF)
Landscape
- Considerations for Sustainable Landscape Planning (3.8MB, PDF) and Appendices (3.1MB, PDF)
- 2014 Addendum (5.8mb, PDF) and Appendix A (327kb, PDF) and Appendix B (273kb, PDF)
- Options for Future Urban Expansion in Warwick District 2016 (1.2mb, PDF) and Appendix A - Part 1 ( 7mb, PDF) and Appendix A - Part 2 (7.1mb, PDF)
- Landscape Character Assessment for South of Warwick and Leamington (1.2MB, PDF) and Appendices (3.8MB, PDF)
- 2014 Addendum (3.6mb, PDF)
Green Belt
Biodiversity
- Habitat Regulations Appropriate Assessment - Screening Report, May 2013 (623kb, PDF)
- Habitat Regulations Appropriate Assessment - Screening Report, March 2014 (700kb, PDF)
- Warwick District Habitat Assessment (3.4MB, PDF)
- Warwick District Habitat Assessment 2012 Update - Kenilworth Wardens and Blackdown (1.62MB, PDF)
- WDC Additional Sites Ecological Report 2016 (8.99mb, PDF)
- Habitat Biodiversity Audit
- Register of Sites of Special Scientific Importance (SSSIs) & Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) & Ancient Woodland
- Longbridge Ecology Report (3.4mb, PDF)
- HRA Screening Report 2016 (2.13MB, PDF)
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)
Air and Noise
- Air quality assessment: Development associated with Local Plan (PDF)
- Odour Assessment, Harbury Lane, Warwick, July 2014 (799kb, PDF)
- Environmental Noise Assessment For Planning Purposes at Five Sites (4.4MB, PDF)
- Air Quality Assessment Update 2016 (6.2MB, PDF)
Flooding and Water
- Water Cycle Study (2.52MB, PDF)
- Strategic Flood Risk Assessment
- Land at Longbridge Fluvial Flood Risk Note September 2014 (883KB PDF)
- Level 2 SFRA for Stratford Road (8.1mb, PDF)
Other Strategies
- 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
- Play Strategy 2007-2012 (Flash version)
- South Warwickshire Partnership Plan 2008 – 2011
- 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
- River Severn Basin Management Plan (2.78mb, PDF)
- Contaminated Land Strategy (442kb, PDF)
- Air Quality Strategy (44kb, PDF)