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ID sylw: 107733

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bellway Strategic Land

Asiant : Savills

We object to Policy Direction 1 as the policy sets out both the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment (2022 HEDNA) and Standard Method figures for the number of dwellings required for Warwick and Stratford across the plan period.
The draft Policy Direction considers basing the emerging plan’s housing need on either the figure from the HEDNA or using the Government’s standard method. We do not consider that it is consistent with national policy to consider a choice between these two methods. National policy states that the Standard Method should be used to identify a minimum annual housing need figure unless there are exceptional circumstances justify an alternative approach (Paragraph: 001 Reference ID: 68-001-20241212). No evidence has been provided to justify any exceptional circumstances and therefore, the standard method calculation should be used.
In order to accord with national policy, the SWLP should be planning for a minimum of 2,188 dwellings per annum across Warwick and Stratford Districts. The HEDNA (2022) should be updated to reflect this updated starting point and assess the need for the SWLP to plan for higher growth.
Once an appropriate housing requirement is confirmed, Table 3 should be amended to reflect the residual housing supply which needs to be identified in the SWLP. Table 2 should be deleted as it is based on the out of date HEDNA method.