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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: West Midlands Housing Association Planning Consortium

Asiant : Tetlow King Planning

The WMHAPC welcomes guidance for new developments with regards to design as it is a useful tool for understanding the expectations of the Council when putting forward planning applications. The WMHAPC asks the Council to be wary of ways in which overly restrictive design codes or demanding policies could impact development viability and therefore restrict the provision of affordable housing in SW.
The WMHAPC would also like to take the opportunity to raise that it is not just appearance but also the maintenance and management of design features and spaces should be considered when designing residential schemes which include an affordable housing element.
Furthermore, the WMHAPC advocates for a well integrated and varied distribution of affordable housing
within housing schemes should allow for social integration within the overall design, although the WMHAPC reminds the Council to consider the practical implications for housing associations when it comes to the management of their housing stock.
.Encouraging pepper potting across a scheme makes
management more difficult as the properties are more spread out. The WMHAPC would not encourage affordable housing to be grouped together in one area, instead recommending that affordable housing is clustered across a site, with policy expressing a maximum group size or range; approximately 10 dwellings forming each cluster on larger sites (circa 100+ dwellings) is often favoured.