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ID sylw: 108738

Derbyniwyd: 19/03/2025

Ymatebydd: King Henry VIII Endowed Trust (Warwick)

Asiant : Savills

We broadly support the contents of Chapter 7 of the plan and agree that combatting climate change through the planning process is becoming an increasingly important consideration in achieving sustainable development.
However, we wish to stress that any requirements included in the Regulation 19 version of the SWLP must be the subject of robust viability testing to ensure that these requirements, along with other key policy requirements in the plan (e.g. affordable housing, Biodiversity Net Gain) do not compromise the delivery of housing through the plan period. We also consider that all policies in this chapter should be drafted on a ‘subject to viability’ and ‘subject to feasibility’ basis, to ensure that individual site-by-site circumstances can be taken into account when individual site allocations come forward. We welcome the recognition, which is included in the justification text for the policies in Chapter 7, that further work needs to be undertaken to demonstrate that the policies are deliverable ahead of the Regulation 19 stage.
We also appreciate that the Councils are cognisant (at pages 118-119 of the Preferred Options document) of the Government’s Written Ministerial Statement dated December 2023, which states that any proposed planning policies which propose energy efficiency standards beyond current or planned building regulations should be rejected at Examination if they do not have a well-reasoned and robustly costed rationale. We trust that the Councils will take this into account as further work is completed to progress these policies ahead of the next consultation stage.