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ID sylw: 106365

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: West Midlands Housing Association Planning Consortium (WMHAPC)

Asiant : Tetlow King Planning

Policy Direction 4 - Accommodating Housing Needs Arising from Outside South Warwickshire Appeal decision 3319752 states that Warwickshire District Council’ can demonstrate 7.12 years of supply against the Standard Method; Stratford-on-Avon’s latest Five-year housing land supply statement states that at 1 April 2024, they can demonstrate 24.65 years of supply. Both respective
authorities exceed the five year housing land supply requirement significantly and when combined, is a
healthy sum for the SW area.
The WMHAPC is pleased to see that the SW authorities are taking a collaborative approach with neighbouring authorities to ensure affordable housing needs are met, sharing responsibilities amongst the authorities of Coventry, Warwickshire, Greater Birmingham and Black Country, all of whom are known to have a constrained housing market area with significant shortfalls in housing provision.
The draft Policy Direction 4 states that: “housing or employment need that cannot be met within the
administrative boundaries of the authority in which the need arises and part or all of the need could most appropriately be met within the South Warwickshire Local Plan, reserve sites will be released for this purpose, or when the relevant authority’s 5 year housing land supply calculation falls below the thresholds set out in national planning policy guidance.” The WMHAPC welcomes this approach although seeks further clarity on the monitoring and strategy to enforce the release of “reserve sites”.