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Yes

ID sylw: 106511

Derbyniwyd: 06/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Wychbury Developments

Asiant : Cerda Planning Ltd

We broadly support the principle that the SWLP should deliver a range of housing of differing sizes, types
and tenures.
However, housing mix policies are oft drafted in a rigid manner, with little opportunity for flexibility of
application to reflect site specific circumstances.
For example, a town centre site is rarely able to deliver family housing, and nor need it given that town
centre living is a housing market in and of itself. Conversely, with town centre sites delivering smaller
housing types those sites in edge of settlement locations should deliver larger family type housing. Put
simply, the policy should be drafted to allow for a range of housing types and tenures across the plan area,
rather than across individual sites. The Councils could keep an up to date annual monitor to establish in
each reporting year how the delivery is performing against the objectives of Policy Direction 10.
Insofar as housing tenures, the NPPF sets out what is now considered to be affordable tenures in meeting
affordable housing need. We strongly support first homes and other forms of discount from open market
level, which provides for ‘second tier’ affordable provision delivered by the private sector without the need
for any public intervention.