Object

Representation ID: 50085

Received: 20/07/2012

Respondent: RPS Planning & Development

The NPPF requires planning authorities to use their evidence base to ensure the Local Plan meets the full objectively assessed needs for market and affordable housing. The Preferred Options identified a projected employment growth of about 700 units per annum but this was rejected as it would require the use of greenfield and greenbelt sites. There is no basis for such an approach unless it can be objectively demonstrated that it would lead to significant adverse impacts. The NPPF recognises that the supply of new homes can sometimes be best achieved through planning for large scale development. Accordingly meeting the needs of the housing market area should not be so readily disregarded without objectively assessing the potential of housing sites on the edge of settlements or within the countryside/green belt.