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Yes

ID sylw: 107515

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Davidsons Homes

Asiant : Cerda Planning Ltd

We broadly support the principle that the SWLP should deliver a range of housing of differing sizes, types and tenures.
However, housing mix policies are often drafted in a rigid manner, with little opportunity for flexibility of application to reflect site specific circumstances and market demand.
For example, a town centre site is rarely able to deliver family housing, and nor need it given that town centre living is a housing market in and of itself. Conversely, with town centre sites delivering smaller housing types those sites in edge of settlement locations should deliver larger family type housing. Put simply, the policy should be drafted to allow for a range of housing types and tenures across the plan area, rather than across individual sites. The Councils could keep an up-to-date annual monitor to establish in each reporting year how the delivery is performing against the objectives of Policy Direction 10.
Insofar as housing tenures, the NPPF sets out what is now considered to be affordable tenures in meeting affordable housing need. We strongly support first homes and other forms of discount from open market level, which provides for ‘second tier’ affordable provision delivered by the private sector without the need for any public intervention, which are more deliverable given the lack of appetite from registered providers to purchase built S106 homes, as has been widely experienced nationally since the interest rate rises of 2022.