Object

Representation ID: 66053

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Lenco Investments

Agent: RPS Planning & Development

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

RPS objects to the fundamental basis of this policy. It is not justified and is unsound. It is incorrectly predicated on unmet need arising from outside of the District and fails to reflect the commitment given by the authority in the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership.

A basis for objection is that the Council proposes a review mechanism to address sub-regional housing need.

Warwick is already accomodating sub-regional employment requirements within this current plan without the need for review. However there is no sign of any housing and job balanced agreement on associate levels of housing provision. The justification for this is that the Council does not know the capacity and other needs of other districts and thus a review mechanism is the only approach that it has considered.

There is a concern that no reference is made to the ability of Warwick or neighbouring authorities to accommodate the need within Warwick from the Gateway site.

RPS considers that a review mechanism is not required and that it is Warwick District Council that has a significant unmet need that needs to be addressed by adjoining authorities.