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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Acres Land & Planning

The SWLP has taken 5 years to reach this stage and 7 years by the current timetable to reach adoption. Part 2 will presumably not be adopted until well into the 2030s. Many of the policies are outdated following the revised 2024 NPPF and continuing changes will undermine the Government's target to deliver Plans within 30 months. The Preferred Options is clearly not at an advanced stage, with tentative and vague policies/proposals and a 'pick'n'mix' list of large sites. It is unclear what will happen with Stratford-on-Avon's SAP, and after 6 years delay it seems sites will be put back into the pot for the SWLP. Two allocated self-build sites have taken 4 years to get outline consent because of 'limited weight'. The SWLP is focused on large-scale development in proposed New Settlements and Strategic Growth Locations which will distort development to volume builders with standardised 'anywhere' types of new development, while squeezing smaller local builders out of the market.