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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Coventry City Council

Coventry City Council supports and welcomes the principles behind Draft Policy Direction
4, which states:

"The South Warwickshire Local Plan will be underpinned by a housing need and
availability evidence base that considers the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing
Market Area as well as the Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market
Area. This evidence base will consider a strategic approach that addresses any
shortfall of land availability to deliver in full the Housing Market Area's Objectively
Assessed Housing Need or other evidenced housing need arising outside South
Warwickshire.
If evidence and the duty to co-operate process clearly indicates that there is a
housing or employment need that cannot be met within the administrative boundaries
of the authority in which the need arises and part or all of the need could most
appropriately be met within the South Warwickshire Local Plan, reserve sites will be
released for this purpose, or when the relevant authority's 5 year housing land supply
calculation falls below the thresholds set out in national planning policy guidance."

As set out earlier in these representations, Coventry City Council works closely with
partners across the Housing Market Area (HMA) and the Functional Economic Market Area
(FEMA), and this includes regular meetings and discussions under the Duty to Co-operate.
Coventry has reached the Regulation 19 stage of plan making and as partners are aware
intends to accommodate its own identified housing need, however this does need to be
tested through examination.

It is also requested that the policy is amended to include clarification that the
accommodation of any shortfall arising from neighbouring authorities should be located
within the geographical housing market area from which that shortfall arises and that its
should be made clear which sites are selected for such purpose.

As the two councils producing the SWLP will be aware, Coventry City Council considers
that it has a shortfall of 45 hectares for local employment need and is seeking help from
partners across the FEMA in addressing this, along with addressing the wider issue of
strategic employment. Discussions are ongoing across the FEMA and Coventry welcomes
acknowledgement of this through the SWLP Preferred Options and further discussions
would be welcomed.