Object

Representation ID: 66283

Received: 26/06/2014

Respondent: Mr H E Johnson

Agent: Bond Dickinson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Welcome increase in housing numbers from the Revised Development Strategy. we object to the proposed spread of numbers between different sources of housing delivery, and we object to the limited overall housing numbers proposed. Half of overall housing delivery is identified as being from existing committed sites. This is risky as there are many reasons why windfall sites do not come forward for development. There appears to be a vast over-reliance on assumed delivery from these sources (over 50%). This is unsound as it is not justified or effective: it can be reasonably foreseen that there will be insufficient housing delivery. A buffer should be included for non-delivery and additional allocations should therefore be identified in order to make this policy sound. Within the site allocations currently identified, there is too much reliance on two large sites (HO1 and HO2) which puts successful housing delivery at further risk.