Object
Solihull Local Plan (Draft Submission) 2020
Representation ID: 14166
Received: 14/12/2020
Respondent: Hampton Road Developments Ltd
Agent: Savills
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Object to setting a market dwelling mix on a borough wide basis and consider it unduly onerous. Consideration of mix should be determined at the planning application stage, following consideration of a range of site specific circumstances.
There are differences between the mix requested by the Local Plan versus the requirements of the made KDBH Neighbourhood Plan. Clarification on which mix should be taken forward if there is a situation in which both housing mixes are part of the Development Plan, is required.
Conclusions drawn from the HEDNA should be taken into account to form a policy which provides advice on the likely mix, but not rigidly apply the mix to all development sites, rather, housing mix should be bespoke to specific sites.
Clarification of which housing mix should be taken forward if there is a conflict between the emerging local plan and the made Neighbourhood Plan.
It is unclear if the concept masterplan referred to in criterion 2 are those produced by the Council in respect of allocated sites within the consultation document. If so, we are not aware that the concept plan shows such detail referred to in the policy. Notwithstanding this point, it is not consider that this level of detail should be prescribed at the plan making stage, rather it should be considered in a collaborative approach between the applicant and Council at application stage. Consideration should be given to paragraph 60 and 61 of the NPPF which require market signals to be taken into account when devising a housing mix.
We request that the Council removes reference to mix (point 3) from Policy P4C and instead refer indicative housing mix ranges in accordance with the HEDNA within the explanatory text.
Developers should be ‘encouraged’ and not ‘required’ to accord with the mixes set out in the explanatory text.
See attached documents.