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ID sylw: 106634

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Warwickshire Property and Development Group

Asiant : Framptons

No. The policy needs amending so that it is consistent with the NPPF (December 2024), and its stated requirement for use of the "Standard Method" the government-mandated formula to calculate the minimum number of new homes a local area needs to plan for in order to boost housing delivery.
The draft SWLP should have also acknowledged that the proposed ‘Housing Need’ figure is only the starting point and additional housing may be required to facilitate economic growth, the delivery of affordable housing and / or to assist in meeting housing needs that cannot be met within neighbouring areas.
The pre-amble to Draft Policy Direction 4 - Accommodating Growth Needs Arising from Outside South Warwickshire states: ‘It is yet to be established to what extent and what uses (e.g. housing and/or employment) there will be any unmet need from elsewhere within these housing market areas [Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (HMA) and the Greater Birmingham and Black Country HMA]. Some of this need will be met by other constituent Local Planning Authorities within both HMA’s; however, through Duty to Co-operate discussions; the Councils will commit to continually consider this need and work with those authorities on how this can be achieved.’
the SWLP should provide, as a minimum, the new Standard Method housing requirement for the Plan area. We stress a minimum because other factors indicate that a further uplift in the housing requirement will be required in order to provide the level of affordable housing need identified in the HEDNA and to take account of allocated sites lapsing, non-implementation and the fact that the capacity of sites can often reduce between the outline and reserved matters stages.