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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cotswolds National Landscape Board

The Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL) Board considers that the current wording of Draft Policy Direction 10 is too vague for us to be able to say whether we agree with the approach laid out.
Policy CE15 of the CNL Management Plan states that ‘housing delivery in the Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL) should be focused on meeting affordable housing requirements, particularly housing that is affordable in perpetuity such as social rented housing’.14
The justification for this approach is set out in the Board’s Housing Position Statement.15
The emphasis on social rent housing is reflected in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which now requires planning policies to ‘specify … the minimum proportion of Social Rent homes required’.16 This new requirement was introduced to support the Government’s objectives around boosting delivery of Social Rent. The Government expects that many areas will give priority to Social Rent in the affordable housing mix they seek, in line with their local needs, and this is something that the Government strongly supports.17 We consider that identifying the minimum proportion of Social Rent homes required is a key, measurable component of demonstrating consistency with Policy CE15 of the CNL Management Plan.
We recommend that Draft Policy Direction 10 should explicitly reflect the approach advocated in Policy CE15 of the CNL Management Plan.