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ID sylw: 108454

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Magdalen College, Oxford

Asiant : Savills

Magdalen College, Oxford strongly supports the Local Plan’s intention to consider the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area as well as the Greater Birmingham and Black Country Housing Market Area (HMA).
It is important that this Local Plan is based on a Spatial Strategy that benefits from meaningful engagement between the authorities within the HMA. Paragraph 69 of the NPPF is clear that, “Strategic policy-making authorities should establish a housing requirement figure for their whole area, which shows the extent to which their identified housing need (and any needs that cannot be met within neighbouring areas) can be met over the plan period.”
It is clear that the NPPF expects housing needs to be met in full and cross boundary working is a tool to achieve this. Given the general increase in housing need across the region following the 2024 NPPF, it seems more likely that places such as Coventry and Warwick, already constrained, will struggle to meet their housing needs within their administrative boundaries and South Warwickshire is a logical area to accommodate at least some of this unmet given the proximity and existing transport connections.
Whilst the College does not necessarily expect its land to be suitable for meeting the unmet needs of any town or city, any additional land that is needed for this purpose, will have a knock-on effect of increasing the number of additional sites subsequently needed to meet the districts own needs.
As discussed above, small sites such as our clients land at Goose Lane, have an important role to play in ensuring a strong supply of deliverable sites across the Plan period.