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Representation ID: 14318

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: Councillor Max McLoughlin

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Para 153- Health should be included in the list as housing is a key factor in good physical and mental health.

The population projections at para 155 are over 3,367 persons more (by 2036) than the latest ONS figures. The projections are 3,517 households higher than the most recent ONS figures.

Para 157- a growth in a demographic does not necessarily correlate with an equal increase in a specific housing need.

Para 158- The most recent figure for Solihull’s median house price is £282,754. Reference should be made on how median earnings have dropped in the last year, whilst house prices have increased, worsening the affordability ratio.

Para 159- providing houses for downsizing only frees up the most unaffordable homes. It could result in more people moving into the borough for the purposes of retirement, increasing lower paid care professional jobs which would worsen the affordability ratio and put greater pressure on the transport infrastructure.

Para 161- a definition of affordability needs to reflect the ratio between house prices and earnings.

Para 162 bullet point 4- there is an overprovision of housing for older people in the borough.