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ID sylw: 107199

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mac Mic Group

Asiant : McLoughlin Planning

We do not support the inclusion of Table 2 within the draft SWLP, given that this sets out the housing calculation using the HEDNA method.
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.
The reliance on windfall provision is even more marked when looking at Stratford-on-Avon in isolation, which has a housing need of 28,150 units over the plan period (as per the 2024 NPPF standard method) and an assumed windfall allowance of 6,850 or 24.3%.
Such an overreliance on windfall provision is simply unacceptable and would render the SWLP unsound.
Paragraph 15 of the NPPF requires the planning system to be ‘genuinely plan-led’. Leaving almost one quarter of housing land supply to future speculative development is not plan-led. As such, additional allocations are required to respond to housing need.