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ID sylw: 106504

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Wychbury Developments

Asiant : Cerda Planning Ltd

We object to Draft Policy Direction 1.
As drafted, the policy refers to meeting housing requirements as expressed in the HEDNA, with sufficient
flexibility to accommodate the housing requirements as set out in the 2024 Standard Method. We have
some sympathy for the Council; at the time of preparing the Preferred Options SWLP the revisions to the
NPPF, and associated update to the Standard Method, were in draft form only and subject to change.
However, with the revisions to the NPPF and Standard Method now finalised the SWLP should commit to
the Standard Method requirement and make no reference to the HEDNA.
As such, the SWLP should be taken forward having regard to Table 3, which we support. We also support
the housing requirement being expressed as a minimum, to be interpreted as having a floor but not a
ceiling.
Progressing the SWLP based upon the Standard method would be consistent with NPPF paragraph 62,
whilst delivering housing above the Standard Method is acceptable in principle having regard to NPPF
paragraph 69