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ID sylw: 100702

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Drayton Manor Farms Ltd

Asiant : Stansgate Planning

No.
The National Planning Policy Framework states, at paragraph 11b), that strategic policies should
provide for the objectively assessed needs for housing and other uses, as well as any needs that
cannot be met within neighbouring areas. This need for cross boundary provision is reiterated in
Framework paragraph 36 a). As drafted, Policy Direction 4 does not go far enough towards meeting
the needs of the Greater Birmingham and Coventry areas. Some cross boundary requirements are
already acknowledged yet the SWLP does not currently propose to make any allocations to meet
those needs from the outset and should be amended to do so, reflecting the latest information
available.
That notwithstanding it remains appropriate for the SWLP to allocate additional sites which can be
released if there is a shortfall against the Districts’ own requirements or needs arising from adjacent
areas. A policy of reserve sites must be clearly set out in the SWLP and not left to a separate
document, to be adopted at a later date.