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ID sylw: 107843

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Taylor Wimpey Strategic Land

Asiant : Turley

Taylor Wimpey strongly support the need for the Draft Plan to respond positively to the identification of unmet housing need arising from the Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) and Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (CWHMA).
Across the GBBCHMA the current standard method suggests a need for approaching 16,000 homes per annum, whilst the need across the CWHMA has slightly decreased to 5,295 (102 lower than the previous standard method). The need for the GBBCHMA is notably higher than that concluded in the 2018 Strategic Growth Study, which suggested a need between circa 10,200 and 12,400 homes per annum. This is a substantive increase, whilst recognising the latter range projected needs only to 2031, and demonstrates the importance of the Plan responding positively to ensuring that needs across the HMA are accommodated over the course of this Plan period. Although Warwick is outside the GBBCHMA, Stratford is within the HMA and as such, this should be taken in to consideration. There continues a need for any shortfalls arising from the GBBCHMA and CWHMA to be considered within the SWLP.
Taylor Wimpey supports the approach set out in Draft Policy Direction 4 to work with the HMA authorities, this accords with the NPPF Duty to Cooperate (Paragraph 24).
Given the scale of the need and the failure for authorities across the HMA to provide for this need in the current generation of Local Plans, there is an imperative on joint working to positively respond. The Council must ensure that the Draft Plan adopts a sufficiently positive and flexible approach to ensure that a proportionate contribution to addressing unmet needs which are identified through discussions and the publication of joint evidence.