The beautiful Warwickshire countryside, all around Coventry, is in grave danger of being covered with thousands of houses – at Eastern Green, Kings Hill*, Westwood Heath*, Keresley, Allesley, Cromwell Lane, and more.  During the 2016 Local Plan process Coventry Council took land out of Green Belt, and allocated it for housing, on the basis of population figures now questioned by the Office of Statistics Regulation (OSR)**. 

                                  Our first legal battle has commenced 

                                    in the Planning Court 15 July 2021

                             URGENT FUNDING NEEDED FOR THE CASE

In June Coventry granted planning consent for 2400 homes at Eastern Green in the Meriden Gap, (‘mixed use housing’) and urgent action is needed now to fund legal proceedings to halt the development from going ahead. 

New Housing must meet local needs. 

Our legal team has framed the case as a fundamental issue that goes to the heart of housing growth in the region. If we have to lose Green Belt, then new housing must deliver housing to meet local needs. 

Seems obvious but when approving the Eastern Green consent, Coventry City Council failed to ask that question and failed to condition the consent to ensure the development delivers housing suitable for our population. That failure puts more Green Belt at risk as developers provide unaffordable “executive” homes, creating more pressure to release additional Green Belt land.

 This is Our Last Chance

We have tried everything: petitions, press, radio, TV, marches, lobbying MPs and the government. This is our last chance.  So, we need your help to fund legal action.

What does the case cover? 

2400 homes at Eastern Green (OUT/2018/3225).  Unfortunately in planning law, each site has to be challenged separately, but if we succeed at Eastern Green, it may well assist following cases.  CPRE Warwickshire is bringing this case.

Please Donate.  Please share this page with friends and neighbours. And thank you for your time and care for our Green Belt, whether you give or not.

Sir Andrew Watson, 

Chair, The Campaign to Protect Rural England, Warwickshire - CPRE 

Reg charity: 1092486   41a Smith St, Warwick, CV34 4JA

*While Kings Hill and Westwood Heath are in Warwick District, the homes are for the benefit of alleged Coventry housing need. 

**We are monitoring the OSR very closely and will use their reports to influence future housing policy.

Background Info

www.coventrygreenbelt.org –  Keep Our Green Belt Green

https://www.cprewarwickshire.org.uk – CPRE Warwickshire