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ID sylw: 106647

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Warwickshire Property and Development Group

Asiant : Framptons

In its current form Draft Policy Direction 10 is not considered detailed enough for WPDG to be clear as to approach that will ultimately be pursued in the submission SWLP. For this reason we support the Draft Policy Direction in principle only, and reserve the right to comment further on this matter once the updated SHMA is published and the Councils have set out more clearly its approach to providing the right tenure and type of housing to meet the diverse needs of all residents in South Warwickshire.
We do, however, wish to restate our preference that separate affordable housing requirements are provided in the SWLP for Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Districts; doing so would be appropriate in terms of reflecting local requirements and viability considerations.
Table 8.5 of the HEDNA highlights the income gap between private renting and buying. Table 8.45 of the HEDNA identifies a total need for affordable housing (rented and affordable home ownership) of 547 dwellings per annum in Stratford on Avon and 830 dwellings per annum in Warwick. Affordable housing delivery is therefore a key challenge for the South Warwickshire Local Plan and the best way to significantly increase the supply of affordable housing is to ensure that sufficient deliverable and developable sites are allocated for housing over the plan period. This should include a balanced portfolio of sites, in terms of their size and location. Over reliance in Part 1 of the SWLP on large sites (with issues associated with lead in times and build out rates) we believe would only inhibit the ability to deliver affordable housing and will fail to address affordability problems in South Warwickshire.