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16 PARISH PLAN Glossary ABB Limited ABB Limited, Moulton Park Industrial Estate, Northampton NN3 6SU Stretton under Fosse Consultation meeting Meeting for all Stretton residents held on 21st January 2008 to discuss the Survey Report and www.sufvillage.co.uk suggest solutions to issues raised by the Survey De Courcey Travel Mike de Courcey Travel Limited, Rowley Drive, Coventry CV3 4FG HA Highways Agency HGVs Heavy goods vehicles Housing Needs Survey The Survey commissioned by the PC in partnership with WRCC and WRHA in August 2007 May 2008 LEA Local Education Authority Parish Plan Local Plan Rugby Borough Local Plan, July 2006 Local Plan Policies Policy E1 Development in the Countryside Policy E2 Green Belt Policy E3 The use of existing buildings in the Green Belt Policy ED 9 Employment development in the Countryside and local Needs Settlements Policy GP 16 Parish Plans Policy H17 Housing in the countryside Investing in Policy H18 Residential conversions of buildings in the countryside and Local Needs Settlements Policy H21 Replacement dwellings in the countryside and Local Needs Settlements our future Policy H22 Extensions to houses in the Countryside and Local Needs Settlements Policy S3 Rural settlement hierarchy Lorry route Warwickshire Advisory Lorry Route Map, 2005 edition Magna Park Magna Park Management Co. Ltd., Hunter Boulevard, Lutterworth Leics. LE 17 4XN Parish The area within the parish boundary outlined in red on the plan at the beginning of this document PC Stretton under Fosse Parish Council P3 Grant Funding from WCC Parish Paths Partnership Precept The Parish Council’s allocated funding from RBC RBC Rugby Borough Council Survey The survey of all Stretton residents carried out in summer 2007 to establish issues of concern and future requirements and also to allow residents to say what aspects they enjoyed about living in the village Survey Report The report published in autumn 2007 describing and analysing the findings of the Survey What is the Parish Facilities in Stretton The Village The Plan This Parish Plan Plan for? Environment VHC Stretton under Fosse Village Hall Committee Village The central settlement of Stretton under Fosse, mainly grouped along Main Street but including The Wharf Website Monitoring Group P. Bromley, E. Collins, E. Ward WCC Warwickshire County Council WRCC Warwickshire Rural Community Council WRHA Warwickshire Rural Housing Association FOR UP-TO-DATE PARISH NEWS LOOK ONLINE WWW.SUFVILLAGE.CO.UK FOR UP-TO-DATE PARISH NEWS LOOK ONLINE WWW.SUFVILLAGE.CO.UK 2 PARISH PLAN Foreword PARISH PLAN Introduction 3 The Parish Plan is an important piece of work and helps us all The Awards for All grant was a welcome bonus as it financed to think about how we want to influence the future of the the whole project. What is the Parish Plan for? village. There is still a lot to do but it will be worthwhile and I hope the Parish Plan helps our village to thrive socially and may bring our community even closer together. This Plan sets out a vision of how the community of Stretton under Fosse wants the Parish to develop, economically and to continue to be the pleasant and identifying the action needed to achieve this and identifying features and local characteristics which people I’m pleased with the number of residents and businesses who attractive environment we all love being part of. have participated throughout the consultation process, giving value. The Plan also describes local problems and suggested solutions, allocating responsibility and us all a sense of ownership of the Plan. proposing a timescale. Of course, the Parish Plan Steering Group’s efforts cannot go Gerald Baxter by without being mentioned and I would like to express my Gerald Baxter - Chair of Stretton under Fosse Parish Council thanks to Maggi Armitage, Peter Bromley, David and Liz Collins, Tracy Darke, Chris Lea, Fran Pinder and Gill Ward. Whose ideas does it contain? About Stretton under Fosse The Parish Plan Steering Group are all Stretton residents who felt Stretton under Fosse has a population of 212 and is a rural strongly that the village should have a Parish Plan to help it parish to the North-West of Rugby and to the East of the City of grow in the future in the right way, that is in the way that you, the residents have asked for. Coventry; these together provide the main retail shopping areas for the Parish. It is in the area of Warwickshire known as ‘The What should you do with the Plan? Revel’, named after the ancient manor of Newbold Revel which We would ask you to read what we have written about the is situated in the parish. village, its problems and advantages, because we are merely the spokespersons for the community and this Plan belongs to us all. The M6 Motorway crosses the North of the Parish, whilst It will be to the advantage of everyone in the Parish to have a running from North to South is the holiday route B4455, the good knowledge and understanding of the Plan to help us go Fosse Way which used, until the 1960s, to be a gated road. This forward into the future. Roman road passes along a ridge to the West of the village A grant of £3,300 was obtained from the National Lottery itself. The B4027 Coventry – Lutterworth Road runs through the ‘Awards for All’ to help to make the Plan as informative and village. The Oxford Canal flows from East to West in the South unbiased as possible and to present it in a good quality format of the parish. so that residents will value it. Stretton today Most of the houses in Stretton village are concentrated along Main Street (the area outside the village boundary being wholly within the Eastern Area of the West Midlands Green Belt); there is also a cluster of houses in the area of Smeaton Lane and a few scattered farms and isolated houses towards its Northern boundary. There is a small industrial complex at The Wharf, a former quay on the Oxford Canal. Being essentially a rural area, views in the village are important as the village is surrounded by open fields and woodland. The view approaching the village from the Monks Kirby direction with the bank of mature oak trees on the offside is particularly attractive, with more oak and other established trees at the approach to the village from the Brinklow direction which are also worthy of note. Trees form an interesting backdrop to most of the village. 4 PARISH PLAN Introduction PARISH PLAN The Parish Plan Process 5 The first settlements The context of the Plan Stretton means a farmstead or village on a Roman road, from The Plan is written against the backdrop of the Rugby Borough the Old English Straet + tun. There is evidence of habitation Local Plan, prepared under the transitional provisions of the dating to at least the post Medieval period (1540 – 1750 AD) Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and adopted in with a number of old cottages and more substantial properties July 2006. The Local Plan incorporates policies providing along its main street. However the finding of a Bronze Age guidance on the location and form of building and other (2500 B.C – 700 B.C.) axe on the Street Ashton side of the development and identifies a rural settlement hierarchy, Parish, an Iron Age (800 B.C. – 42 A.D.) coin and two Roman categorising Stretton under Fosse as a Local Needs Settlement. (43 A.D. – 409 A.D.)coins near Bloores Spinney are evidence of much earlier settlement. This means new housing and employment development will only be permitted to meet identified needs of the local The manor of Newbold Revel, known originally as Fenny community. The Parish Plan reflects the views of residents Newbold, belonged in 1086 to Geoffrey de Wirce who rebuilt expressed in the Survey Report, a considerable percentage of the church at Monks Kirby. There is an entry for Newbold Revel whom stated no further homes were needed. As to location, in the Domesday Book, where it is called Feni-Newbold. Henry I residents who felt there was a need for further housing conferred the property on the Mowbray family and the estate development advocated infill plots (thus, subject to local need, passed to Sir Hugh Revel around 1235 who bestowed his falling within the Local Needs Settlement criteria). surname on the estate calling it Newbold Revel. The Local Plan also contains policies designed to safeguard the Newbold Revel countryside and protect the Green Belt. The Plan reflects the general satisfaction with environmental aspects established by The principal building was and remains the Newbold Revel the Survey Report particularly in respect of the open countryside mansion house. Originally this was a medieval manor house and Green Belt. which was inherited by Sir Fulwar Skipwith in the late 17th century and it was he who, using the services of Francis Smith of Most of the Parish is arable or pasture farmland with areas of Warwick, had by 1716 rebuilt the mansion much in its present woodland but there is a network of footpaths and bridleways form, absorbing the layout and quite a lot of the walls of the crossing the Parish which are popular with horse riders and much older house. Newbold Revel remained a Mansion House in ramblers. In the village itself the buildings to a great extent private hands until 1932 when the estate was sold after the border the main road, the B4027, and it is the area within the death of Leo Bonn. It is now the Prison Service College.