With reference to the overt mention of live planning applications for extensions to Magna Park and others next to MP (presumably the Symmetry application) in this plan.
These planning applications have not been passed and therefore should not form any part of the local plan.
We have been assured it is not a 'done deal' and the matter is ongoing. A wide range of cogently argued objections to the significant extension of the warehousing area can be found online and there is very strong local feeling against these planning applications. Public meetings have been so well attended that the last one needed an aircraft hangar to accommodate the crowd. These objections were aired at the meetings.
However, all these things clearly count for nothing because although those planning applications are supposedly not yet resolved, here they are, firmly included in this Local Plan. The plan suggests 700000 sq m of warehousing will be allocated - exactly the acreage which matches those two applications. It is impossible to regard this is a coincidence.
I have already placed objections to the MP and Symmetry applications. This particular objection relates to the inclusion of them in the local plan as if the planning applications have been passed.
It is appalling that local feelings are ignored in such an important issue which, if allowed, will destroy the area around Lutterworth for ever. The council is neither representing Lutterworth nor working in the town's best interests. It is both underhand and misleading to include them in this plan.

In addition, one reason the Local Plan includes this vast warehousing extension in the Lutterworth area is that the developers also claim this will bring 10,000 new jobs to Lutterworth. There is considerable evidence that most workers in MP already commute to the site from elsewhere. There is no employment crisis locally so even more people will be forced to come by car. In effect, the town and local villages will get little from these proposals beyond pollution, traffic jams and general disfigurement of the area. The roads are already jammed now. The council has been presented with copious amounts of data on these and many other points.
Finally, this part of the Local Plan claims this warehousing development will bring a desirable 'breadth of employment' and satisfy national objectives but how? These developments merely offer more of the same, not a variety of new opportunities. There is no diversity here.
To sum up, this part of the plan should be erased and a new brownfield site to satisfy government targets for industry should be found elsewhere. Lutterworth is already saturated with this type of development and new opportunities less destructive should be sought.