Industrial units approved despite noise complaints

Plans to build industrial units in Warwickshire have been approved despite noise complaints from local residents.

Twelve units have been approved on land south of the A45, between Festival and Tollbar junctions, near Baginton in Warwick.

The land had previously been allocated for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to build a car showroom and workshop alongside a hotel and retail units.

At a planning meeting, councillors heard that some villagers were opposed to the plans as they already suffered from disturbed sleep due to early morning lorries travelling to and from a nearby site.

One Baginton resident said: "The buildings bear no resemblance to the JLR plan and are much larger.

"The floorspace and overall building volumes have increased dramatically, yet thousands of jobs can now be counted in the hundreds."

She also highlighted the "years of disruption" from "incessant beeping noises and layers of dust and dirt invading our lives".

"Sleep is being disturbed by speeding cars from early-morning shift change and their DHL lorries have been seen coming through the village," she continued.

Councillors expressed mixed feelings around the project with some accepting a level of disruption had to be expected from the creation of new jobs while being concerned at the pace and nature of the alterations for plans on this land.

Warwick District Council planning officer Adam Walker said the applicants could not reasonably detail noise management mitigations until they knew who would let the units but that conditions would see each occupier assessed individually.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.

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