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ID sylw: 106618

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mac Mic Group

Asiant : McLoughlin Planning

Table 3 (Housing calculation 2024 NPPF standard method) identifies a total housing need across the plan period of 54,700 for South Warwickshire, with assumed windfall allowance across the plan period contributing 9,375 to this figure, or 17.1% of the total need.
Such an overreliance on windfall provision is not justified and would render the SWLP unsound. This is a point explored in the recent Shropshire Local Plan examination, where the reliance on windfall sites was lower. Paragraph 15 of the NPPF requires the planning system to be ‘genuinely plan-led’. Leaving almost one quarter of housing land supply to chance is not plan-led. As such, additional allocations are required to respond to housing need.