Object
Publication Draft
Representation ID: 65409
Received: 27/06/2014
Respondent: Stoneleigh & Ashow Parish Council
Agent: Parklands Consortium Ltd
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
As current ONS figures demonstrate, WDC's housing figures are almost 30% higher than current predictions the requirement for urban expansion within the Green Belt is no longer an urgent requirement. The proposed housing site H6 demonstrates no very special circumstances for development in the Green Belt and the removal of this very important section of the A46 Green Corridor.
Stoneleigh and Kenilworth Parish Council submission:
WDLP 2014 Publication Draft:DS6, DS7 DS10 and DS11
Paragraphs 2.20, 2.22, 2.37 and 2.39
Policy Map 5
Details of Why the Local Plan is not sound:
The provision of 12,860 new homes between 2011 and 2029, (para.2.20) is based on projections of population numbers through to 2029, form the SHMA of 2013, but the plan projections used population data from the ONS which only covers the period until the year 2021. Revised ONS data, (May 2014), covers the full period until 2029 and shows much slower growth projections.
NPPF requirements that the latest ONS data is used for making growth projections require that these housing figures should be revised downwards. This requirement would minimise the need to consider locating the balance of housing land in Greenfield sites, (para2.22)
Policy Map 5 shows the allocation of a Green field site H06 to the east of Kenilworth, (Thickthorn) for the allocation of 760 houses, (para2.39). This use of the Green Belt does not demonstrate very special circumstances as required by the NPPF and would breach the A46 Green Corridor.