Object

Representation ID: 67234

Received: 12/12/2014

Respondent: The Warwick Society

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

In the draft Plan, Policy DS6, para 2.20 remains unsound because it is even less justified by the evolving evidence than it was in June 2014. The Joint SHMA Amendment published in September 2014 with the title '2012-based Sub-National Population Projections & Economic Forecasts: Implications for Housing Need in Coventry & Warwickshire' did not reflect the reduction of 29% in the population of the District in 2031 that the ONS now projects. It also maintains the unsupported projection of a substantial fall in average household size.

Both these defects in the basis of the draft Plan were fully explained in our representation of 27 June 2014. Between then and the publication of the 'Focussed Changes', in the light of that and many other similar representations, the Council has had the opportunity to update the Plan to reflect the significant change in the evidence supporting it. It has not done so, and the Plan continues to propose the allocation of some 4,900 plots on greenfield land, unjustified by evidence and contrary to the NPPF.