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New searchDevelop Brownfield only for the first 5 -10 years and then reassess. There are 806 Ha of brownfield in the HMA, on the latest published registers, enough for 27,000 new homes. As policy, there should be a presumption that in that moratorium period, green field sites will be refused unless it can be shown there is no alternative in the local authority [most of the brownfield is in Stratford and Coventry].
Q-H1-1: - The HEDNA is proposing that we move away from an approach where future household needs are based on the 2014-based household projections towards a trend-based approach. Do you think that the HEDNA evidence provides a reasonable basis for identifying future levels of housing need across South Warwickshire? A trend based model should be used to future housing need, but NOT SNPP or the HEDNA – The census proved the SNPP spectacularly wrong. The HEDNA, however, fails to get right births, deaths, windfalls and student movements. It needs to be more detailed, fully transparent, and based on historic trends, not models and fudge factors [UPC]. Taking into account the 5 Dec 2022 letter from Michael Gove, Secretary of STate to MPs, The housing needs assessment should not include the 35% uplift for the 20 largest towns [locally Birmingham and Coventry], any unmet needs for neighbouring authorities, nor any affordability factor which is discredited. It has not been shown to reduce house prices. The true housing need of the area is grossly overestimated. Q-H1-2 –If your answer to H1-1 is No, what would be a more appropriate approach to calculating future housing needs for this Local Plan The modelling needs to be fully transparent – we need full access to the spreadsheets and assumptions used in the ICENI model which has been denied thus far. Any new model needs to include a full range of administrative data, [school admissions, electoral role, student migration, pensions, benefits, gas & electric use, waste tonnage, student destinations after graduation, home office visa data, house sales, house completions, house sales, job creation etc] especially relating to student migration and internal migration [HESA destinations data, Home Office visa data, especially the exit checks data]. Windfalls need to be estimated accurately. If windfalls continue as in the recent past, [ca 900/yr] the HMA will exceed the housing need identified in the HEDNA. Future trends should be firmly rooted in the actual recent past, projecting forward recent trends, not in any way relating to ONS discredited methods.
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The duty to coooperate was removed by the Secretary of State on 5 Dec 2022, as well as the standard method, the 5 year land supply, and the 35% uplift for the 20 largest towns and cities. This plan should only accept provision for other authorities on a voluntary case by case basis, at the plan review stages, after at least 5 or 10 years when we will have accurate information about real population growth and housing need.
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Compel new developments, whether domestic dwellings or vast logistics warehouses, factories, commercial or agricultural premises, to have solar panels sited upon them and to meet the highest practicable standard for insulation and heating. All free parking should be ended to reduce carbon emissions by private transport, Workplace parking should be taxed. All new build housing should be built to the future "net zero" standard now rather than waiting for the Government to pass the legislation.- reduction of demand should always be considered in a hierarchy before increased provision of supply.
Issue S6: A review of Green Belt boundaries Green Belt boundaries should remain as they are or restored to previous positions where it is now obvious that land needs have been exaggerated.- in particular the safeguarded land at Westwood Heath, and the land for a further 1500 homes at Kings Hill. Housing should be concentrated within existing boundaries. A greater density of housing will reduce carbon emissions. Research shows that suburban homes produce 2 to 4 times as much CO2/person as city centre dwellings. All of the land taken out of green belt for unmet Coventry need should now be returned to green belt, as the alleged population bonanza never happened – specifically land between Coventry, Kenilworth, and Warwick University should be returned to green belt.
There should be full transparency of correspondence and evidence relating to the local plan, so that a) the public can fully understand the alternatives considered and the reasons and evidence for options chosen. b) so the public can fully participate in environmental decision making under the Aarhus Convention - without full information, it is impossible to effectively participate
Develop Brownfield only for the first 5 -10 years and then reassess. There are 806 Ha of brownfield in the HMA, on the latest published registers, enough for 27,000 new homes. As policy, there should be a presumption that in that moratorium period, green field sites will be refused unless it can be shown there is no alternative in the local authority [most of the brownfield is in Stratford and Coventry].
A trend based model should be used to future housing need, but NOT SNPP or the HEDNA – The census proved the SNPP spectacularly wrong. The HEDNA, however, fails to get right births, deaths, windfalls and student movements. It needs to be more detailed, fully transparent, and based on historic trends, not models The modelling needs to be fully transparent – we need full access to the spreadsheets and assumptions used in the ICENI model which has been denied thus far. Any new model needs to include a full range of administrative data, [school admissions, electoral role, student migration, pensions, benefits, gas & electric use, waste tonnage, student destinations after graduation, home office visa data, house sales, house completions etc] especially relating to student migration and internal migration. Windfalls need to be estimated accurately. If windfalls continue as in the recent past, [ca 900/yr] the HMA will exceed the housing need identified in the HEDNA
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The duty to coooperate was removed by the Secretary of State on 5 Dec 2022, as has the standard method, the 5 year land supply, the uplift for affordability, and for the 20 largest towns and cities. This plan should only accept provision for other authorities on a voluntary case by case basis, at the plan review stages, after at least 5 or 10 years when we will have accurate information about real population growth and housing need.
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compel new developments, whether domestic dwellings or vast logistics warehouses, factories, commercial or agricultural premises, to have solar panels sited upon them and to meet the highest practicable standard for insulation and heating. All free parking should be ended to reduce carbon emissions by private transport, including taxes for workplace parking.
