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ID sylw: 108655

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Kingacre Estates Ltd (‘Kingacre’)

Asiant : Nexus Planning

Policy Direction 4 indicates that the SWLP will be underpinned by a housing need and availability evidence base that considers the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (‘HMA’) as well as the Greater Birmingham and Black Country HMA. Kingacre supports the Councils’ commitment to developing an evidence base that will consider and seek to address ‘…any shortfall of land availability to deliver in full the Housing Market Area's Objectively Assessed Housing Need or other evidenced housing need arising outside South Warwickshire’.
Furthermore, the draft Policy Direction clarifies that should the evidence and the duty-to-cooperate process clearly indicate that ‘…there is a housing or employment need that cannot be met within the administrative boundaries of 12 the authority in which the need arises and part or all of the need could most appropriately be met within the South Warwickshire Local Plan…’, then reserve sites will be released to meet that need.
Kingacre supports the Council’s commitment to meeting unmet needs arising, where evidenced, from other Authorities within the Coventry and Warwickshire HMA and Greater Birmingham and Black Country HMA. In meeting this commitment, the Council should identify specific sites that are set aside for these purposes and monitor their delivery independently of those sites allocated to meet the District’s own substantial housing needs.
Recommendation(s): a. Continue to develop an evidence base and policy position that assesses and seeks to meet identified unmet needs arising from Authorities in the Coventry and Warwickshire HMA and Greater Birmingham and Black Country HMA