Object

Representation ID: 66275

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Gladman Developments

Agent: Stansgate Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

District Council has not made adequate provision to meet full and objectively assessed needs for market and affordable housing (para 47 of NPPF). Quantum of housing development needs to be substantially increased and the distribution of provision needs to be amended to release more housing in sustainable rural locations such as Growth Villages to achieve core planning principles set down in NPPF (paragraph 17) and requirement to deliver wide choice of high quality homes, widen opportunities for home ownership and create sustainable, inclusive and mixed communities (NPPF, paragraph 50). Even if quantum of housing not increased, distribution of housing growth needs to be reconsidered to allow more housing growth to take place within sustainable rural locations such as Growth Villages
RDS (June 2013) recognised (Policy RDS3) desirability of distributing growth across District, including within and/or on edge of some villages, and allowed for a hierarchy of growth in rural area to include higher level of growth in larger, more sustainable villages with services. RDS provided for circa 1,000 dwellings to be provided in the then designated Primary/Secondary Service Villages and subsequent appraisal work does not remove need to provide for more housing across the District, in order to meet requirements of NPPF/Council's own objectives. Appraisal work does not justify reducing amount of housing to be directed to larger, more sustainable villages.