BASE HEADER

No

ID sylw: 107796

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bellway Homes

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 HEDNA (2022) sets out a housing need of 41,975 dwellings for the 25-year plan period. This document was prepared over 2 years ago and does not reflect the recent changes to the Standard Method (December 2024). The Standard Method identifies a minimum housing need of 54,700 dwellings over 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.
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 Table 2 should be deleted as it is based on the out of date HEDNA method.
Table 5 sets out a list of proposed Strategic Growth Locations (‘SGL’). Bellway’s land is included as part of the proposed SGL SG19 ‘East of Stratford-on-Avon’. Bellway strongly supports the proposed allocation of SGL SG19 and their land interests. Bellway’s land has been assessed as the eastern half of site ID 471 (c.4ha) (Land North of Loxley Road, Stratford upon Avon) and the eastern part of a wider parcel, site ID 466 (c.16.73ha) (Land at Knights Lane, Loxley Road and Pimlico Lane, Stratford upon Avon). This land is not constrained by Green Belt and is in a highly accessible location adjacent to a Growth Settlement and in close proximity to the most sustainable settlement in Stratford district.