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Regulation 19 - TEN Template Responses
Simplifying Regulation 19 Comments
Cotswold District Council has been criticised for making the system for responding to Regulation 19 too complicated, with every key point having to be submitted separately and tied back to a paragraph / page number. Not easy when there are more than 8,000 pages !!!
MAID has created a set of 10 standard templates to respond to the most common areas of objection. These are:
1. Schools and Healthcare
2. Landscape and Vistas
3. Flooding and Drainage
4. Masterplan and Historic Layout
5. Traffic and Highways
6. Health, Welfare and SEN Protections
7. Water Supply
8. Historic Environment
9. Education Infrastructure & School Travel
10. Medical Infrastructure & Public Health
Each of the 10 topics has 2 forms, apart from topics 8, 9, and 10. Where there are 2 forms they are basically the same but have small differences. This is to help avoid the Inspector seeing submissions as being a direct copy of someone else's comment. For the same reason it is also important that you try and add a comment of your own in the space provided. If you want to submit comments on all 10 topics you will need to download and complete all 10 forms. Please just randomly select either Form 1 or Form 1a for topic 1, Form 2 or Form 2a for topic 2 etc.
You have 3 options to submit your comments.
1) You could use the information from the template and complete your input online via the CDC feedback portal:
https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/planning-and-building/planning-policy/local-plan-2026-2043/
WE ONLY RECOMMEND THIS IF YOU ARE COMMENTING ON A SINGLE ELEMENT OF THE PLAN (CHAPTER, POLICY, etc.)
2) You can download the appropriate MAID form(s) and edit as electronic documents, or print and complete by hand. You can then send completed forms via email back to CDC. Electronic documents can be attached directly to an email. Handwritten forms need to be scanned to create an electronic version. Forms should be emailed to:
3) You can post the completed form back to CDC.
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To access the forms please use the link to the right - "ACCESS THE FORMS"
Access the Forms
All 17 of the forms are available to download by clicking the link below.
Let Councillors know how you feel
Information for contacting CDC
The section below contains all the email addresses for CDC Councillors. Depending on what you want to say it may be relevant to send your comments to all Councillors, or if you would rather address a specific committee the main committees and representatives are:
Main Committees and Members
- Cabinet (Executive decision-making body):
- Mike Evemy (Chair), Juliet Layton (Vice-Chair), Patrick Coleman, Tony Dale, Mike McKeown, Andrea Pellegram, Tristan Wilkinson.
- Planning and Licensing Committee (Decides planning applications and licensing):
- Dilys Neill (Chair), Ian Watson (Vice-Chair), Ray Brassington, Nick Bridges, Patrick Coleman, Daryl Corps, Paul Evans, David Fowles, Nikki Ind, Julia Judd, Michael Vann.
- Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Reviews council policies and decisions):
- Gina Blomefield (Chair), Angus Jenkinson (Vice-Chair), Claire Bloomer, David Cunningham, Tony Slater, Lisa Spivey, Clare Turner, Michael Vann, Jon Wareing, Ian Watson.
- Audit and Governance Committee (Handles financial audits and governance):
- Helene Mansilla (Chair), Craig Thurling (Vice-Chair), Nick Bridges, Paul Hodgkinson, Jeremy Theyer, Jon Wareing, Len Wilkins, Nick Craxton, Christopher Bass (Co-opted).
CDC Councillor email addresses
mark.harris@cotswold.gov.uk; clare.turner@cotswold.gov.uk; len.wilkins@cotswold.gov.uk; jon.wareing@cotswold.gov.uk; Gina Blomefield <gina.blomefield@cotswold.gov.uk>; Tom Stowe <tom.stowe@cotswold.gov.uk>; andrea.pellagram@cotswold.gov.uk; david.fowles@cotswold.gov.uk; julia.judd@cotswold.gov.uk; michael.vann@cotswold.gov.uk; david.cunningham@cotswold.gov.uk; ray.brassington@cotswold.gov.uk; tony.slater@cotswold.gov.uk; mike.mckeown@cotswold.gov.uk; Helene.mansilla@cotswold.gov.uk; tristan.wilkinson@cotswold.gov.uk; angus.jenkinson@cotswold.gov.uk; daryl.corps@cotswold.gov.uk; claire.bloomer@cotswold.gov.uk; tony.dale@cotswold.gov.uk; jeremy.theyer@cotswold.gov.uk; mike.evemy@cotswold.gov.uk; juliet.layton@cotswold.gov.uk;
naomi.bloomer@cotswold.gov.uk; dilys.neill@cotswold.gov.uk; patrick.coleman@cotswold.gov.uk; nikki.ind@cotswold.gov.uk; ian.watson@cotswold.gov.uk; laura.hall-wilson@cotswold.gov.uk; lisa.spivey@cotswold.gov.uk; paul.evans@cotswold.gov.uk; craig.thurling@cotswold.gov.uk; nick.bridges@cotswold.gov.uk
Comments you might like to make
You may want to take inspiration from the MAID messages lower down this page, or perhaps one of more these issues:
1) Who in Mickleton wants a Village of 5000, the size of Chipping Campden without the facilities (More than doubling of village population in coming years with little additional infrastructure provision).
2) The village size will double over the next few years following on a 38% increase over the last ten years.
3) Existing welcoming rural gateway to the Cotswolds to be replaced with an urbanising sprawl of housing estates engulfing the village and wreaking havoc upon its natural and historical environment.
4) 80 hectares of land will be lost, greatly impacting on the rural setting of the village and impacting views to and from the Cotswold National Landscape.
5) Mickleton marks poorly against 15 other Cotswold settlements in terms of services and facilities, a figure the CDC has artificially increased by including in its ‘score’ facilities that are yet to be built.
6) Being swamped by nearly 1,400 additional homes is completely disproportionate and unnecessary given that there is no proven need for over 500 affordable homes to be built in this locality. Our own survey showed that the village’s need was for 70 ‘AFFORDABLE’ homes.
7) Huge increase in traffic in and through the village in a system which is already creaking at the seams, aggravated by the lack of a public car park.
8) CDC continues to ignore the large building project happening just 2 to 3 miles down the road at Meon Vale in Warwickshire, which will have an enormous impact on the village.
9) The additional 1,400 homes will put huge pressure on health and secondary education provision.
10) A&E hospitals are at least 20 miles distant, and congested roads will make it even harder for emergency vehicles to service the village.
11) Car dependency for reaching employment and doing the ‘big shop’ due to very poor public transport availability.
12) All this building will damage the Council’s aim of reducing carbon emissions.
13) CDC believe that they can make Mickleton a town if they say it often enough. IT IS A VILLAGE
MAID email to CDC Councillors
MAID sent the following email on 27/7/26
Dear Councillor
We would like to express our anger at the New Housing Plan (Regulation 19) which will be coming to Full Council on 12th August for approval.
In this Mickleton is to be ‘landed’ with 1387 houses instead of the 590 odd which Regulation 590 had proposed and which MAID, the Mickleton Parish Council and many of our residents had strongly opposed. Now you present us with this amazing figure and justify it by saying that you had to protect the National Landscape, and provide figures to match Government targets – targets which will never be achieved, but which you are making sure are enshrined in this Housing Policy.
Your argument is that unless you have a Plan in place, many Developers will descend on us and the Council will be unable to show a housing Plan that will stop such unwanted developments. Well we can say for Mickleton that is no different from the situation your plan has left us with. There is simply no further space in Mickleton to build after you have carved the village up.
For this you offer us a Community Centre (We have a perfectly good hall) and a primary school. We assume you are going to knock down the one we already have so you can build more houses there, whilst building us a new bigger school to take the many children these new houses will bring us. You mention improved public transport, and include Honeybourne Station (In Worcestershire) as an asset. I assume you can arrange a bus to and from Honeybourne every half hour from 6 am to 9 pm to cover those people who might want to use ‘our station’. You do not acknowledge that they have a tiny car park, always full, which means many more car journeys to drop off and collect those who want to go by train. All this while conveniently ignoring and not engaging with the thousands of houses being built in Warwickshire.
Traffic through our village is already at breaking point, though we suppose having an extra 3000 cars will greatly improve the speeding problems we have, not the least in Stratford Road where speeds of 65 mph have been recorded by our Speed Check Camera. This is the road you intend to place the ‘new’ school in.
This plan is badly flawed and needs to be rejected in its present form
Yours
Jerry Arnull
On behalf of MAID
MAID Initial REACTION TO REGULATION 19 - 26/7/26
Fight for the survival of Mickleton
Cotswold District Council’s shock announcement of more than 1,200 extra homes for Mickleton is due for approval by 12th August.
CDC have now issued their Regulation 19 consultation document for the revised Local Plan, which will likely be approved at a Council meeting on 12th of August. Following this there will be a public consultation period between 24th August to 5th October. In a final phase the Plan will be submitted to the Secretary of State in December 2026 for independent examination.
The Regulation 18 document was the first crucial public stage in creating the Local Plan. It invited local people, businesses, and groups to share ideas on what the plan should cover, including housing needs and local site options. Mickleton made strong submissions for changes based on local needs, the majority of which have been ignored.
In Regulation 19, without further consultation or regard to previous comments made, CDC have created a new village (town) on our behalf with more than 1,200 extra homes. The expectation set in Regulation 18 was around 590 extra homes. They have planned it all without any consultation with us. Hardly democratic!
What we could gain (CDC claims): A significant number of affordable homes (good) but far in excess of what is required for our local community. A new primary school. Safe and direct walking and cycle routes. Enhanced public transport. Space for sports pitches.
What this will mean: Loss of Village identity. Doubling of village size and population. No space between us and the Meon Vale developments. Dramatically increased traffic. No guarantee that the gains will actually happen based on previous experiences. No new village hall with parking and facilities. No new sports pavilion. Increased pressure on water supplies and sewage. Loss of valuable farmland at a time when we should be growing more. Loss of natural habitats. No doctors or dentist. Increased pressure on secondary school.
CDC are pleased with their solution and believe this plan puts infrastructure, affordable houses and landscape protection at the heart of growth.
MAID believes CDC are turning the Village into a town without the infrastructure to support it.
MAID are holding a Meeting at the Village Hall on 30th July at 7 pm. Come and help us plan the way forward and give us your views.
Meanwhile, should you wish to see the full details of the proposed Local Plan they are available on CDC’s website for a meeting of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee on August 3rd. Scroll down to Section 7 after following this link to the meeting agenda. Overview & Scrutiny Meeting for August 3rd.
Thank you for your support.
Mickleton Against Inappropriate Development