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Stoneleigh and Kenilworth Parish Council submission:
WDLP 2014 Publication Draft:DS6, DS7 DS10 and DS11
Paragraphs 2.20, 2.22, 2.37 and 2.39
Policy Map 5
Details of Why the Local Plan is not sound:
The provision of 12,860 new homes between 2011 and 2029, (para.2.20) is based on projections of population numbers through to 2029, form the SHMA of 2013, but the plan projections used population data from the ONS which only covers the period until the year 2021. Revised ONS data, (May 2014), covers the full period until 2029 and shows much slower growth projections.
NPPF requirements that the latest ONS data is used for making growth projections require that these housing figures should be revised downwards. This requirement would minimise the need to consider locating the balance of housing land in Greenfield sites, (para2.22)
Policy Map 5 shows the allocation of a Green field site H06 to the east of Kenilworth, (Thickthorn) for the allocation of 760 houses, (para2.39). This use of the Green Belt does not demonstrate very special circumstances as required by the NPPF and would breach the A46 Green Corridor.