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3.38 IM supports the Council’s overall goal of tackling climate change and achieving Net Zero Carbon. It is considered that directing growth to sustainable locations will assist the Councils in their endeavours to transition to a zero-carbon economy and would avoid the need for development to be brought forward in less sustainable locations elsewhere in the Districts. 3.39 The 2019 Spring Statement included a commitment that by 2025 the Government will introduce a Future Homes Standard for new build homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and ‘world-leading levels of energy efficiency’. The Government hosted public consultations from October 2019 – February 2020 and January 2021 – April 2021 respectively on the changes to Part L, Part 6 and Part F of the Building Regulations, which subsequently came into effect in June 2022. Furthermore, Building Regulations now require housebuilders to build more resilient homes to assist the Council in achieving their targets. Any policies that are contained in the Local Plan should be sufficiently flexible to allow for a continued evolution of these policies during the Plan period.
3.40 IM generally agree that the range of topics set out is appropriate for a strategic design policy. It is important to consider that a ‘well-designed place’ refers to the place as a whole, and should therefore include built form but also landscaping and planting.
Question D2: • Option D2b: Develop design guides and/or design codes for specific places (e.g. existing settlements or groups of settlements, or an ‘area’ in the case of a new settlement) where the spatial strategy identifies significant change. • Option D2c: Develop design guides/codes for strategic development sites/locations. 3.41 IM support the development of design guides for all allocated sites within the SWLP and will look to work with WDC and WCC to take an active role in producing them. 3.42 In relation to the safeguarded land at Westwood Heath Road, a development brief document should be developed which covers the whole of the Site area, setting out the general parameters of design including the access connections between the land controlled by IM and CEG. This can then inform separate design guides for both the IM and CEG sites(as required) and the subsequent separate planning applications. There is also potential for the wider South Coventry Masterplan being prepared by the Councils to provide initial design parameters at a high level, to help inform the development brief and design guides.
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Question T1: Option T1b; Include reference to the principles of a 20-minute neighbourhood or other similar design approach (e.g. Building for a Healthy Life) within a broader overarching policy. 3.43 IM are generally supportive of the inclusion of guidance in respect of 20-minute neighbourhood principles in the SWLP. However, this should not be a policy requirement as the composition and functionality of a neighbourhood is in constant flux.
3.44 The document as drafted does not currently make any reference to the safeguarded land previously identified in the adopted WDC Local Plan. However, the table at chapter 12 confirms that Policy DS21 “Safeguarded Land” will be addressed in the Part 1 plan due to it being considered a strategic policy for the SWLP. 3.45 The safeguarded sites should be the first to come forward to deliver much needed housing development, as they have already been determined to be suitable for development and subsequently removed from the Green Belt. Therefore, the safeguarded land at Westwood Heath Road should receive an allocation to enable the Site to deliver new homes in the early stages of the plan period
