Support
Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundaries
Representation ID: 60923
Received: 16/01/2014
Respondent: Sworders
We appreciate that the detailed site assessment work has resulted in a decrease in the total number of village housing due to environmental and access restrictions, against the backdrop of a likely increase in the district housing requirement as evidenced by the recently published Coventry & Warwickshire joint Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA), the council should approach this reduction with caution.
Sites must be deliverable therefore access restrictions are important considerations and can be an absolute bar to development, environmental constraints are more objective and must be balanced against the requirement to meet the full needs of a growing population.
We appreciate that the detailed site assessment work has resulted in a decrease in the total number of village housing due to environmental and access restrictions, against the backdrop of a likely increase in the district housing requirement as evidenced by the recently published Coventry & Warwickshire joint Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA), the council should approach this reduction with caution.
Sites must be deliverable therefore access restrictions are important considerations and can be an absolute bar to development, environmental constraints are more objective and must be balanced against the requirement to meet the full needs of a growing population.