Object

Representation ID: 744

Received: 06/08/2009

Respondent: West Midlands RSL Planning Consortium

Agent: Tetlow King Planning

It is considered inappropriate to set limitations on the scale of development that may be permitted in rural areas as this approach is unnecessarily negative. The Council should instead seek to implement positive, practical policies that encourage affordable housing development that is proportional in scale and nature to identified needs and the character and scale of the rural area to which it relates.
The conflict apparent within paragraph 9.11 should indicate that residential development should not be unnecessarily restricted through an arbitrary measure but instead be assessed against local need on a case by case basis.