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Rainier Developments is asking for views on a plan for up to 90 homes on two fields east of Birmingham Road, Stratford, beside the Bishopton roundabout where the A3400 meets the A46. Half the homes would be affordable. The developer says it will send in an outline planning application this autumn, and it wants feedback on its consultation website by Sunday 15 November.
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What’s planned
- Up to 90 homes on 3.47 hectares at the northern edge of town, 50% of them affordable, with a mix of house types and sizes.
- A new junction on Birmingham Road for cars, walkers and cyclists, plus paths linking to the shared path along Birmingham Road and towards Bishopton Lane.
- 0.74 hectares of green space with a children’s play area, kept mainly to the east of the site, plus a drainage basin and about 190 metres of new hedgerow.
- Electric car charging for every home and at least a 10% gain in wildlife habitat, which the law now requires.
The developer’s case
Rainier, a land company based in Henley-in-Arden, says the fields are part of a site called the Clopton Quarter (draft allocation STR.1), which is earmarked for housing in the emerging South Warwickshire Local Plan. That plan is due to be submitted in December and adopted in 2028. The land is in the Green Belt, but the developer argues it counts as “grey belt”, lower-value land that national policy now allows to be built on. It also points to the district’s housing shortage. Its website gives the supply as 2.21 years; the council’s latest figure, debated at Cabinet on 2 November, is 2.43 years, still well short of the five years national rules expect.
According to the developer, the site is about a nine-minute walk from Stratford Parkway station and three or four minutes from bus stops on Birmingham Road. It says the land is in the lowest flood risk zone, but that part of the south-west corner is at risk of surface water flooding, so rainwater would be held back on site and released slowly into the public sewer. None of the trees are protected, and the nearest listed buildings include Clopton House and Bishopton Lodge.
The worries so far
In the Stratford-upon-Avon Forum on Facebook, residents have questioned whether a new junction so close to the roundabout entrance is safe, and how much traffic it would add to a Birmingham Road that’s already busy. The developer’s website says the junction is designed “to provide safe and convenient access”, but its transport assessment isn’t published yet. Birmingham Road’s junctions have a history, as our report on where the safety fixes stand sets out.
How to have your say, and what happens next
Comment by 15 November on the Clopton Quarter website, by emailing cloptonquarterstratford@stantec.com, or by post to Land East of Birmingham Road, Pegasus Group, 5th Floor, 1 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 3NH. You can ask for paper copies of the plans. This is the developer’s own consultation: once the application reaches Stratford-on-Avon District Council, there will be a formal consultation where comments go on the planning file. Rainier expects a committee decision in spring 2027, building to start in 2028 and the homes to be finished by summer 2030. We’ll report when the application is lodged.
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Alex Harrington
Alex Harrington grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and runs What's up, Stratford? as an independent guide to the town.
