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ID sylw: 107663

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cala Homes (Cotswolds)

Asiant : Lichfields (London)

Cala broadly agrees with the approach laid out by Draft Policy Direction 4 but notes the importance of the duty to co-operate and the need to ensure that growth needs are accurately calculated. Cala welcomes the acknowledgement at Para 4.4 that states, “Under the Duty to Co-operate, the Council is obliged to engage proactively with certain prescribed bodies to address strategic cross boundary issues. There may be a need to look to accommodate 'unmet need' from the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (HMA) and the Greater Birmingham and Black Country HMA” but re-asserts its comments in relation to section 3, para 3.1 of the SWLP preferred options that consideration of unmet need should start to take place in the early stages of the plan-making process and the unmet need position should continue to be reviewed under duty-to-cooperate obligations. It is therefore suggested that the Local Plan should aim to make reference to a realistic level of need predicated on discussions and evidence to date with its neighbouring authorities.
The clear increase in the housing requirement arising from this new method of calculation is an important consideration for the South Warwickshire Local Plan, especially in light of recent Inspector’s findings on the Solihull Local Plan Review which concluded (September 2024) that there was a significant deficit in housing land supply which needed to be addressed through its current Local Plan Review and not through a future review.