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ID sylw: 108340

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Caddick Land

Asiant : Stantec

Under the Duty to Co-operate, the Council is obliged to engage proactively with neighbouring authorities to address strategic cross boundary issues. This includes a potential need to accommodate ‘unmet need’ from the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (HMA)
and the Greater Birmingham and Black Country HMA. While both Stratford and Warwick districts are located within the Coventry and Warwickshire HMA, only Stratford lies within the Greater Birmingham and Black Country HMA.

Draft Policy Direction 4 sets out how it is yet to be established to what extent there will be any unmet need from elsewhere within these housing market areas, however, the Councils will commit to “continually consider this need and work with those authorities on how this can be achieved.”

In this regard, Draft Policy Direction 4 suggests that reserve sites will be released for this purpose, or when the relevant authority’s 5-year housing land supply calculation falls below the thresholds set out in national planning policy guidance.

Whilst this is commendable in theory, it is not understood how the Councils intend to allocate reserves sites through the SWLP when the scale or type of development need has not yet been determined. For example, there is no direction as to the scale or number of sites that are
required.

Nonetheless, regarding location, it is logical to look to deliver unmet development needs as close as possible to where they arise. This principle further supports the allocation of sites in the north and western parts of the Plan area, which includes Land North and South of Hill
Wootton Road.