Object

Representation ID: 66192

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Hallam Land Management and William Davis

Agent: Marrons Planning

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

In its present form there are a number of concerns about this policy, it is considered inconsistent with the advice in para. 50 of the NPPF and on that basis is unsound.

If market conditions for the development of land for new homes were to fall back from those currently experienced, securing the provision of at leat 40% of the new homes as affordable on any one site, may render a development proposal unviable.The policy as presently drafted is insufficeintly flexible to allow for such future circumstances.

It is considered that by including in Policy H2 the expression that on all qualifying sites, a minimum of 40% of the new housing must be affordable, then there will be flexibility in the application of the policy over time.