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Representation ID: 69820

Received: 22/04/2016

Respondent: Bishop's Tachbrook Parish Council

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The table to the policy is more than 12 months out of date as it only records completions between April 2011 and March 2015.
BTPC has been keeping an updated record of all compliant planning approvals given and building regulations data that has been deposited and recorded starts and completions. These include applications that do not need planning approval as they are permitted developments but nevertheless need to comply with building regulations and that produce additional dwellings (a copy is attached).
Rather than 1,483 completions, at least 2,200 completions are known to have occurred since 1st April 2011 to date. This compares with the DCLG household projection for mid-2016 that was 2,599 completions may be required and the actual number of completions required to meet the 2013 and 2014 mid-year population estimates converted to completions of 2,050 by mid-2016.

The original full text includes tables to illustrate.

The final numbers show that even if the maximum figure of 16,776 goes ahead, there are 1,281 sites more than needed to provide for both Warwick District and Coventry's unmet need.
Within the modified plan there are many references to providing sites for Coventry's unmet need immediately adjacent to Coventry. Without any further planning grants there are already 9,418 sites, either not started, started or complete to meet Warwick's FOAN of 10,800 sites.
The conclusion is that since all the Warwick FOAN is fully planned and available and there are sufficient sites around Coventry and the north of the District to meet Coventry's unmet need, then there is no further need to include any more sites than the 5,415 sites south of the towns.