Object

Representation ID: 55452

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Thomas Bates & Son LTD

Agent: Ms Julie Cross

Query the level of windfall provision (2,800) that comprises some 23% of the total housing requirement. Including Small Urban SHLAA Sites' (300) and 'Consolidation of Existing Employment Areas' (450), means that almost 29% of the housing requirement proposed is unidentified.

NPPF advises Local Planning authorities that they may make allowance for windfall sites in the five- year supply if they have compelling evidence that such sites have consistently become available and will continue to provide a reliable source of supply.

This has not been the case in Warwick District that currently has only a 2.6 year supply of housing land.

Refers to recent Government and PINS advice to Maldon District Council:
* confirming the importance of meeting objectively assessed needs and the need to look at all reasonable options to fulfill this, for example by expanding growth on existing preferred sites etc.

* Without a five year land supply the local planning authority were vulnerable in the case of a planning appeal and suggestion that that Council may want to look at the possibility of bringing forward a number of smaller and more deliverable sites in the short term to boost its five year supply.

In the context of the above requests that the local plan should be amended to include a policy or supporting text that confirms that:
Proposals for housing submitted in respect of the allocations as specified, and in accordance with the phasing indicated, will be approved where the proposed scheme is in accordance with the plan.