No

ID sylw: 101544

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The importance of lowering embodied carbon in building materials is understood, and this being encouraged by policy is noted. The quantitative targets within Policy Direction 24 refer however to the Low Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) and the Royal British Institute of Architects (RIBA) rather than specific analysis for the Plan area. A local analysis of the ability of different types and scales of development to meet an embody carbon policy should be prepared and subsequently tested through viability.

No

ID sylw: 101548

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The Council should acknowledge that where a local need can be identified and demonstrated, or an unmet interest in office accommodation can be demonstrated, that office accommodation should be permitted.

No

ID sylw: 101554

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The Council should monitor and ensure that the appropriate evidence is updated throughout the period of the Plan once adopted, and that policies can rely on this future evidence to quantify the need for different tenures and types of residential accommodation. Explicitly quantifying a level of tenures, mixes and types at the Plan’s adoption risks the Plan becoming quickly outdated, which would result in the Plan not being positively prepared or effective, as is required by Paragraph 36 of the NPPF.

No

ID sylw: 101557

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

A blanket requirement for provision of Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation within all sites over 500 homes is not considered pragmatic. The suitability of sites of this scale to accommodate the identified need should be assessed on a site-by-site basis; having regard to the scale and distribution of need, and the constraints and opportunities presented by the proposed allocations. Sites may also come forward elsewhere in the District through windfalls, and therefore the need and timing of provision will need to be kept under review.

No

ID sylw: 101561

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The best way to deliver self and custom build homes to meet identified needs is to allocate specific sites designed to cater for such homes. Sites will be smaller by their nature, and therefore more responsive to market demand and more likely to be attractive to those wishing to develop their own homes. Larger sites can only efficiently be developed by the major housebuilders, and the inclusion of self and custom build within their developments can create health and safety and operational difficulties when homes in areas are being built by multiple developers to different timescales and standards.

No

ID sylw: 101563

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The South Warwickshire Councils must continually review the Local Housing Need up to adoption, they must consider an increased higher housing need, implement a 5% lapse rate to account for unimplemented commitments, and reassess the existing commitments and windfall allowance as outlined.

Yes

ID sylw: 101566

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The South Warwickshire Councils are justified in their approach to housing mix and tenure as it reflects the ambitions of Paragraph 63 of the NPPF, and the NPPF as a whole. The Councils should ensure they provide flexibility within their housing mix and tenure policies to account for circumstances where delivering a housing mix in-line with the identified mix is not feasible or logical.

Other

ID sylw: 101571

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The principle of Draft Policy Direction 8 is acceptable. The SWLP should ensure that policies regarding density align with Paragraphs 129 and 130 of the Framework, particularly local market conditions and viability (Paragraph 129b). Any density policy within the SWLP should acknowledge the impact that evidence-based housing needs.

Yes

ID sylw: 101576

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

It is imperative that the SWLP adequately considers accommodating unmet housing needs arising from outside of South Warwickshire. There are significant unmet needs arising from the GBBCHMA which require attention, and potential unmet needs arising from Coventry which should be taken account of accordingly. There is also potential for unmet needs arising from Cotswold District, Redditch Borough, Bromsgrove District and Solihull Metropolitan Borough which should be considered. Failure to do so would render the SWLP not positively prepared nor effective and thus unsound in line with Paragraph 36 a) and c) of the NPPF.

No

ID sylw: 101579

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Alderley Holdings Trust

Asiant : Mr Jack Barnes

The Vision should recognise that there are unmet development needs outside of South Warwickshire that may need to be met within South Warwickshire. A Strategic Objective should also be to meet any unmet housing needs from communities elsewhere that cannot meet their needs, where it is practical and consistent with achieving sustainable development. This would align the strategic objective with the ‘positively prepared’ test of soundness.