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Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bostrom Property LLP

Asiant : Fisher German

2.27 Paragraph 11 of the NPPF however further states that “Plans and decisions should apply a “presumption in favour of sustainable development…For plan-making this means that: strategic policies should, as a minimum, provide for objectively assessed needs for housing and other uses, as well as any needs that cannot be met within neighbouring areas” [our emphasis]. This is also again clear at Paragraph 69. 2.28 Stratford forms part of the Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area and both Stratford and Warwick are within the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area. There are demonstrable unmet needs in both. Whilst these may have improved through the updated Standard Methodology for generating LHN, not least due to the removal of the 35% urban uplift, even with this removed there will still be unmet needs which can be quantified in the short term and positively dealt with through new allocations. 2.29 Given the acknowledged regional shortfalls and thus unmet need, this is an issue which needs to be grappled with at least provisionally in this Plan through the contribution of additional supply. We do not agree this should be inherently linked to the relevant 5-year supply of external authorities as ultimately this may be in dispute and regardless, unmet needs are present now which require response, not hypothetical unmet needs which will only emanate when they do not have a 5-year housing land supply. Clearly a housing land supply shortfall in that given authority will induce the presumption in favour and allow for that issue to be remedied locally, not through neighbouring release of land. Unmet need is a strategic intervention and acknowledgement that authorities are unable to meet their requirements as a fundamental part of Plan making. 2.30 This Plan must therefore as an intrinsic part of its housing requirement provide for unmet needs, and again in terms of supply a sufficient buffer should be provided to ensure that the requirement is met in full in order to be in accordance with national policy and also positively prepared (which explicitly references unmet needs) and effective (NPPF Paragraph 36).