Object

Representation ID: 66825

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Europa Way Consortium

Agent: AMEC

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The housing target policy in DS6 should be clearly identified as a minimum delivery requirement, net of demolitions, to enable the full objectively assessed need to be met.

The District's overall affordable housing need should be increased to 360 affordable dwellings per annum to deal with past undersupply.

The December 2012 Economic and Demographic Forecasts study shows net in migration of 855 persons a year in Warwick, therefore the zero migration scenario used in the 2013 SHMA is likely to have underestimated the need for affordable housing. In addition the 2012 SHMA identified a need for 698 affordable dwellings per annum in the District. This is a significantly higher level of need identified only one year before the joint SHMA.

The Council's proposed figure of 12,860 homes between 2011 and 2029 is over 100 dwellings less than what the Joint SHMA states is the objectively assessed housing target.