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ID sylw: 108806

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Barratt David Wilson Homes (Mercia)

Asiant : Savills

The SWLP will be examined against 2024 therefore there is no justification to use the HEDNA (2022) as a basis of calculating the housing need for the South Warwickshire area. Instead, in order to comply with national planning policy requirements, the latest standard method calculation figure for South Warwickshire is deemed to be the correct figure to be used in determining the number of homes needed. This results in a minimum requirement of 54,700 dwellings across the Plan period.
To ensure that the SWLP strategy is robust it should be actively accommodating evidenced shortfall from Coventry and Birmingham, in addition to the standard method
requirement for Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon Districts.
Barratt David Wilson Homes Mercia supports the proposed strategic approach of focusing the majority of the additional development needed to meet the housing requirement in large scale extensions to urban areas, in accordance with the approach to identification of Priority Areas set out in Figure 5 of the Preferred Options consultation document and, importantly, supplemented by additional development in new settlements. The proposed Strategic Growth Strategy Options identified in Figure 6 of the Preferred Options consultation document however need to be refined in order to ensure that development opportunities adjacent to the main settlements, notably those in close proximity to railway stations, including at SG07, are being optimised. The approach taken in relation to the location within and adjacent to SG07 is considered further within the site-specific representations made by Barratt David Wilson Mercia in relation to the land it is promoting between the Birmingham Road and Grand Union Canal, immediately to the north west of Warwick Parkway Railway Station.
Barratt David Wilson Homes Mercia also wishes to highlight that the SWLP development strategy should also include smaller sites at sustainable settlements across the SWLP area to enable sufficient variety in the size and number of housing sites allocated. Such smaller sites can be more readily deliverable than large-scale extensions
and new settlements in order to ensure that housing needs are met where and when they arise. If the SWLP continues to be progressed through a 2-part Local Plan process, with smaller allocations made through the Part 2
Plan, then it is considered that the Part 1 SWLP should include a mechanism for supporting the development of sustainable sites adjacent to settlements in advance of the adoption of the Part 2 Plan.