Object

Representation ID: 66282

Received: 26/06/2014

Respondent: Mr H E Johnson

Agent: Bond Dickinson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Welcome increase in housing numbers from the Revised Development Strategy however objects to the level of housing growth identified in the plan for the following reasons: The Council appears to have taken the figures from the 2011 CLG Interim Housing Projections and inserted them into the Local Plan without aligning these figures with other aspirations of the Plan. The objectively assessed need is therefore not provided for and it does not accord with the NPPF. The result of this will be an under delivery of homes against the identified need. The NPPF requires an additional buffer of at least 5% of housing need to ensure choice and competition in the market. Bearing in mind the historic under delivery in the area and the potential requirement to meet identified need in other local authority areas it is clear the council will have to bring forward housing from later plan periods and consequently fall short later on. The Council has ignored the advice of the Joint SHMA which recommends 720 dwellings per annum. Concern that the Council has not sufficiently discharged ita duty to cooperate, it is very likely that additional housing will be needed in Warwick District to meet the needs of the HMA. Recent Gallagher Homes case reinforces this point. It is therefore considered that the proposed housing requirement should be increased and further land should be allocated . The proposed extension at Red House Farm could provide a further 150 homes and should be removed from the Green Belt and allocated for housing.