only 48 HOURS left TO SAVE THE ANSTY GREEN BELT!

Fraser Group have applied to develop the land between Ansty and junction 2 of the M6 and build a MASSIVE WAREHOUSING COMPLEX, carefully disguised in their planning application as a ‘Global Headquarter Campus’ 

Campus my arse! The fact is they want to build FIVE COLOSSAL WAREHOUSES - the biggest is 458m long, 220m wide and 27m high - that’s TWICE THE HEIGHT OF ANSTY HALL HOTEL or the equivalent height of SIX DOUBLE DECKER BUSSES!!! 

Put another way, if you were to pick up that one building and drop it onto the Rose & Castle pub, it alone would smother the entire village of Ansty! And it will be filled with goods made in the FAR EAST, not Coventry, and there will be zero benefit to the local economy!

The sad fact is, RBC couldn't care less about YOU, the local residents, it's all about money; money for them certainly, but not us. In their own words, paragraph 20.37 on their agenda states that...

"Ultimately, all other points aside, this huge economic benefit of the proposal to Rugby is such that this gives rise to the very special circumstances case. Indeed, the report elsewhere makes the point that even if the circumstances were different (i.e. the need case was not made out or there was an alternative site), the recommendation would remain unchanged. This is ultimately because the economic benefits and growth that the proposal would give rise to are so significant that this benefit alone justifies the grant of permission, as this clearly outweighs all other collective harms associated with the development."  

And good luck if you were thinking you'd be able to use their swanky new Gym, or the new Swimming Pool, because there'll be 7,500 Fraser employees in the queue in front of you who will be given priority.

During the consultation at Ansty Golf Club, we were assured that the secondary exit onto the B4029 was to be 'For emergency vehicles only'. Now, with one wave of Mike Ashley's magic wallet, sorry wand, the exit is to be used by Fraser's employees as a way in and out of work - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! We were deliberately misled! 

And, on this night of miracles, research commissioned by Frasers says there is unlikely to be any disruption to local traffic. Do they seriously think their 7,500 employees will all be cycling to work or going by bus? Or that the hundreds of additional HGV journeys in and out of the site every day won't have any impact? Not even Paul Daniels could make all that extra traffic disappear, and yet Frasers have managed to pull the wool over RBC's eyes by dangling a financial carrot so juicy that it alone is sufficient to dismiss out of hand any and all objections raised, all the harm that even RBC admit it will do, plus the permanent loss of our precious Green Belt and the agricultural land it stands upon. 

Be under no illusion; if this application is approved on Wednesday, the ONLY beneficiaries will be Fraser Group and Rugby Borough Council, who stand to make £millions in Business Rates.

And what happens if, in ten years' time, Fraser Group were to go the same way as BHS did less than a decade ago? Who would take over this abominable colossus, then? The liquidators would simply flog the site off piece by piece to the highest bidders, and given their current stance, I doubt RBC would care who that was, just so long as they were getting an economic benefit out of the deal. 

NO! NO!! A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!!

This proposal is wholly unsuitable for the area on so many levels, including:

• Contravention of Green Belt land usage — the only reason given for granting “Very Special Circumstances” to develop on Ansty's protected Green Belt land was for, 'the huge economic benefit of the proposal to Rugby'  - it's all about money, 
• Contravention of the Rugby Development Plan
• Impact on traffic in the surrounding region (including the construction phase, Ansty bridge, etc)
• Environmental impact of 27m high warehouses — the destruction of the countryside and damage to wildlife
• Noise, and vibration due to the proposed 24-hour shift working 
• Quality of life in Ansty and surrounding areas — the character of the villages will be destroyed irreparably
• Employment considerations: Employment levels in the area are relatively high, and do not require this level of additional jobs. Indeed, Fraser proposes to bus thousands of staff in from Leicestershire and the surrounding area. 
• No benefit to the local community The vast majority of Fraser's goods are manufactured abroad, so it will not provide any manufacturing or creative jobs for the area — merely warehousing imported goods