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ID sylw: 108037

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Rainier Developments Ltd

Asiant : Pegasus Group

With regards to housing figures, it is considered that the policy direction as drafted is not positively prepared, justified, or consistent with national policy, in relying on out-of-date evidence to suggest that 1,679 dpa would be an acceptable annual housing requirement, and incorrectly treating the Standard Method’s 2,188 dpa as a maximum figure, secondary to the ageing HEDNA. To remedy this, the emerging policy should state that provision will be made for at least 2,188 dpa, requiring a minimum of 54,700 dwellings over the plan period. The evidence demonstrates that this is deliverable, with in excess of 2,188 completions in six of the last eight years across South Warwickshire, and opting for this higher figure would not undermine the effectiveness of the plan.

The Site at Birmingham Road is located in a Strategic Growth Location, identified as ‘West of Stratford upon Avon’ reference SG18. The Site is sustainably located and is suitable, available, achievable and deliverable, with it being capable of accommodating a high-quality residential development on land that is immediately adjacent to the settlement edge to the south and would effectively ‘round-off’ the settlement up to the A46 on the Site’s northern boundary.