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Derbyniwyd: 25/09/2009

Ymatebydd: Bishops Tachbrook Parish Council

Higher Housing Growth
The Parish Council Strongly objects to the levels of growth already being catered for in the Draft Core Strategy - Preferred Options Paper as there is not a demonstrable local demand for the housing numbers being proposed. We therefore also object to any increase in this number.
Because the estimated population of the District will only be proven in the course of time, and at 10year intervals by the census, no action should be taken or decisions made that compromise the matters of value such as agricultural land by including Greenfield sites in early phases of the programme when brown field sites should be used first.
The effect of adding 10800 homes to the stock of 55,033 households, in WDC as registered in the 2001 census - a 19.62% increase - is to require towns to expand beyond their design capacity for traffic, medical, social and educational facilities in the vain hope that by developer deals or planning requirements in giving permissions that these missing bits will magically appear. Some will happen, but development is a business and it must turn a profit to survive. That means that such costs would need to be passed on to the housing customer that buys the house. Add to the equation the affordable housing requirement of whatever percentage then it will be normal house purchasers that will get higher than necessary prices meaning that house prices become less affordable. As new house prices rise, prices for old houses rise with them and the market gets out of control. Properly, if the government has asked authorities to build additional houses it should make infrastructure monies available to the local authority. This then comes from tax revenues so everyone pays. Not everyone would like that!