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Representation ID: 14016

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: West Midlands HARP Consortium

Policy P4E – The policy states that all new build housing on major development sites must be built to Category M4(2). It is not clear if the viability study (October 2020) has assessed the impacts of these standards alongside all of the other policy requirements of the Draft Local Plan against affordable thresholds higher than 40%. It is quite common for housing associations to deliver up to 100% of housing on site as affordable and therefore this requirement should be subject to viability. Without these viability studies for these kinds of developments, implementing such technical standards is likely to threaten future delivery of affordable housing on schemes with developers having to negotiate its reduction to achieve viability on schemes.