No

ID sylw: 95709

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

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.

No

ID sylw: 95713

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

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: 95718

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

HELAA Sites 381 and 382 score poorly in relation to connectivity on the basis it concludes it is not adjacent to the settlement. This is based on a built-up area boundary which does not recognise the Rosebird Centre and Springfield Close as built development - which form part of the town. This has meant Sites 381 and 382 do not perform as well as they should do in the HELAA, and the HELAA should be corrected prior to the next iteration of the Plan.

Yes

ID sylw: 95719

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

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 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.

Yes

ID sylw: 95721

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

Development proposals should endeavour to deliver the infrastructure set out in the transport strategies outlined, but the SWC’s must acknowledge the ability and need for strategic scale sites to deliver infrastructure that is considered important to a local community but not formally identified within an IDP or other transport strategy. Regarding infrastructure requirements for strategic allocations, the SWCs should collaborate with those bringing the site’s forward to understand site-specific requirements. Allocations with overly onerous infrastructure requirements may delay the delivery of sites due to viability or feasibility concerns. Requirements for infrastructure should not undermine the deliverability of the plan.

No

ID sylw: 95723

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

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: 95724

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

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.

No

ID sylw: 95727

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

The NPPF at Footnote 51 is clear that optional technical standards and the Nationally Described Space Standard should only be enforced through planning policy where this would address an identified need and where it can be justified. Policies will need to be tested for their impact on viability.

No

ID sylw: 95728

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

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: 95730

Derbyniwyd: 04/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bloor Homes Western

Asiant : Marrons

A blanket requirement for provision of Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation within all sites over 500 homes is not considered acceptable. 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.