Question 43 - What measures would incent developers
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 6721
Received: 18/02/2019
Respondent: Mr Steven Webb
I personally don't agree with the view that people should be packed in like rabbits which seems to be the approach the council is putting forward. Just look at Dickens Health, it's a terrible, terrible place for people to live.
The council should be paying more attention to quality of housing, quality of materials and development and overall improvement of peoples lifestyles not just simply treating people as sardines because it meets some vague management/political target. The council in short should be pushing back and trying to improve the communities lives rather than wreck them.
I personally don't agree with the view that people should be packed in like rabbits which seems to be the approach the council is putting forward. Just look at Dickens Health, it's a terrible, terrible place for people to live.
The council should be paying more attention to quality of housing, quality of materials and development and overall improvement of peoples lifestyles not just simply treating people as sardines because it meets some vague management/political target. The council in short should be pushing back and trying to improve the communities lives and wreck them.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7094
Received: 07/03/2019
Respondent: Tetlow King Planning
The Council should seek to understand the impacts of any change in the affordable housing threshold measure by calculating how this would have impacted on development proposals that have already been assessed at application stage, and those likely to come forward through this Plan Review. Once this work has been completed the most appropriate mechanism to use will become clearer.
Consider a combination of policies on expected housing type, size and tenure mix together with an appropriate threshold measure. The use of the optional National Space Standards across all tenures may be a useful measure where this is justified by local need, and is viable. This may assist in coordinating floorspace across tenures. Introducing this for single tenures is generally resisted as this can have the impact of reducing scheme viability.
See attached letter
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7286
Received: 10/03/2019
Respondent: Mrs Jane Starling
Developers want their developments to be desirable and do not want to squeeze in as many small properties as possible to reach council affordable housing targets. Maybe the council should not be using up green belt in the most expensive parts of the borough for houses which by definition should not be affordable as starter homes. It is not as though most people buying affordable (or very expensive) houses in the Knowle area are going to live here but will travel to areas where there is work. This is where the housing needs to be.
Developers want their developments to be desirable and do not want to squeeze in as many small properties as possible to reach council affordable housing targets. Maybe the council should not be using up green belt in the most expensive parts of the borough for houses which by definition should not be affordable as starter homes. It is not as though most people buying affordable (or very expensive) houses in the Knowle area are going to live here but will travel to areas where there is work. This is where the housing needs to be.
Object
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7319
Received: 10/03/2019
Respondent: Councillor M Wilson
In Solihull, initiatives encouraging tenants to take greater control of their homes and communities by becoming involved in co-operatives, tenant management organisations and estate management boards, so long as these don't provide a first step towards privatisation of housing.
So, I am pushing alternative means , other than private development . This should be sought as priority. Plus, private, commercial organisations house builders and their representatives should not be involved in the process of identifying potential, l sites or assessing housing needs on behalf of the local communities in Solihull.
In Solihull, initiatives encouraging tenants to take greater control of their homes and communities by becoming involved in co-operatives, tenant management organisations and estate management boards, so long as these don't provide a first step towards privatisation of housing.
So, I am pushing alternative means , other than private development . This should be sought as priority. Plus, private, commercial organisations house builders and their representatives should not be involved in the process of identifying potential, l sites or assessing housing needs on behalf of the local communities in Solihull.
Support
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7351
Received: 10/03/2019
Respondent: Michael Moran
Tighter palnning regulations within the borough allied with help to access cheaper sources of funding to source to support builders of small homes
Tighter palnning regulations within the borough allied with help to access cheaper sources of funding to source to support builders of small homes
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7388
Received: 11/03/2019
Respondent: Golden End Farms
Agent: Delta Planning
A strong policy on housing type and mix which is enforced at planning application stage.
A strong policy on housing type and mix which is enforced at planning application stage.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7458
Received: 11/03/2019
Respondent: Rentplus
Agent: Tetlow King Planning
We recommend that the Council look to diversify the market and affordable housing 'offer' by setting policies that detail general house type, size and mix expectations with sufficient flexibility to respond to needs over the Plan's lifetime. This should include the full range of affordable housing tenures to maximise the number of affordable homes that can be delivered across Solihull over the Plan period, and to ensure a diversity of needs are met, including for those who cannot afford to buy without a period of affordable rent.
comment on affordable homes / affordable rent policy - see letter
Object
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7605
Received: 11/03/2019
Respondent: Solihull Ratepayers Association
Do not support the change of unit measure policy
Members supported the retention of the existing unit system as well established and easily understood, it was also felt the present 40% affordable policy was at the very top end of the scale with concern expressed at the level of cross subsidy from market housing falling especially heavily on younger and first time buyers rather than general taxation
The Solihull Ratepayers Members Forum and AGM on 8th March considered a presentation on the Solihull Local Plan Review Consultation and the presentations of our views are set out in the attached letter
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7672
Received: 12/03/2019
Respondent: Mr N Walters
Price cap on land! The single biggest driver for house price inflation is land pricing and land banking, landowners are given too much power in land prices and developers landbank over decades to realize inflated values on strategic land. Affordable housing land needs capping to realize more realistic house prices.
Price cap on land! The single biggest driver for house price inflation is land pricing and land banking, landowners are given too much power in land prices and developers landbank over decades to realize inflated values on strategic land. Affordable housing land needs capping to realize more realistic house prices.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7735
Received: 12/03/2019
Respondent: Edward Fraser
Accept tenders only from Developers who are committed to build 40% or more affordable housing, if necessary have joint housing projects with the Council or Housing associations.
Accept tenders only from Developers who are committed to build 40% or more affordable housing, if necessary have joint housing projects with the Council or Housing associations.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7889
Received: 13/03/2019
Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central
All households should have access to different types of dwellings to meet their housing needs.
Market signals are important in determining the size and type of homes needed. When planning for an acceptable mix of dwellings types to meet people's housing needs the Council should focus on ensuring that there are appropriate sites allocated to meet the needs of specifically identified groups of households such as families, older people and / or self-build rather than setting a specific housing mix on individual sites.
All households should have access to different types of dwellings to meet their housing needs. Market signals are important in determining the size and type of homes needed. When planning for an acceptable mix of dwellings types to meet people's housing needs the Council should focus on ensuring that there are appropriate sites allocated to meet the needs of specifically identified groups of households such as families, older people and / or self-build rather than setting a specific housing mix on individual sites. The Council should ensure that suitable sites are available for a wide range of types of developments across a wide choice of appropriate locations (see answer to Question 2).
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7987
Received: 13/03/2019
Respondent: Mrs Olga Cawdell
Developers have too much say in what and where houses are build, I think the council and local residents should have the final say.
developers have to much say in what and where houses are build, I think the council and local residents should have the final say
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7992
Received: 13/03/2019
Respondent: Mrs Alex Woodhall
I think the residents need to have a large say in what is built where
I think the residents need to have a large say in what is built where
Object
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 8107
Received: 14/03/2019
Respondent: Terra Strategic
Agent: Delta Planning
A strong policy on housing type and mix which is enforced at planning application stage.
A strong policy on housing type and mix which is enforced at planning application stage.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 8187
Received: 14/03/2019
Respondent: Mr Richard Drake
I think a simple housing unit measure would be more appropriate. However, I question if 40% is the right number for Balsall Common's needs. It would result in people moving here as somewhere to live away from their existing work and social links with an inadequate public transport supply.
I think a simple housing unit measure would be more appropriate. However, I question if 40% is the right number for Balsall Common's needs. It would result in people moving here as somewhere to live away from their existing work and social links with an inadequate public transport supply.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 8211
Received: 14/03/2019
Respondent: Mrs Caroline Drake
A simple % of housing units built would seem simpler and more effective. However, the location of affordable housing needs to be matched to where it is needed by locality not at a Borough level.
40% of the proposed new houses in Balsall Common would be over 400 houses and it is hard to see a local demand for them
A simple % of housing units built would seem simpler and more effective. However, the location of affordable housing needs to be matched to where it is needed by locality not at a Borough level.
40% of the proposed new houses in Balsall Common would be over 400 houses and it is hard to see a local demand for them
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 8507
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Simon Taylor
If a cap is placed on the total housing per site (suggest 50% of proposed allocation), with the cap only increased (ceiling of 100% proposed allocation) if smaller market housing is included, this would incentivise developers to build more of the latter (on the basis the scope of their overall development would be limited without)
If a cap is placed on the total housing per site (suggest 50% of proposed allocation), with the cap only increased (ceiling of 100% proposed allocation) if smaller market housing is included, this would incentivise developers to build more of the latter (on the basis the scope of their overall development would be limited without)
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 8534
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Joelle Hill
This is not about incentivising but obliging the developers to provide the required larger numbers of affordable housing. This is not really just a local issue but a national one and the government should tighten control of the planning process to enforce affordable house building. Solihull COuncil will not be able to address this problem in isolation.
This is not about incentivising but obliging the developers to provide the required larger numbers of affordable housing. This is not really just a local issue but a national one and the government should tighten control of the planning process to enforce affordable house building. Solihull COuncil will not be able to address this problem in isolation.
Support
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9008
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Councillor Max McLoughlin
Facilitating partnership working with a variety of providers.
The housing crisis cannot be addressed by developers alone. There are different providers that will be able to address specific components of it. Solihull Community Housing will need to play a key role in ensuring Social Housing is delivered as part of the housing mix. Housing Associations and Co-operatives should also be invited to cooperate. Each will have specialisms that can address different gaps in the market.
Facilitating partnership working with a variety of providers.
The housing crisis cannot be addressed by developers alone. There are different providers that will be able to address specific components of it. Solihull Community Housing will need to play a key role in ensuring Social Housing is delivered as part of the housing mix. Housing Associations and Co-operatives should also be invited to cooperate. Each will have specialisms that can address different gaps in the market.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9054
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Jennifer Archer
By not using the current RICS standard method.
By not using the current RICS standard method.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9164
Received: 14/03/2019
Respondent: The Home Builders Federation Midland Region
All households should have access to different types of dwellings to meet their housing needs.
See Letter
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9281
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: IM Land
Agent: Barton Willmore Planning
the Council is seeking to utilise affordable housing provision to address a different issue. Sufficient land for housing should be allocated to meet the needs of the Borough, and the wider region. This should include scope for different types of housing to come forward to meet specific needs.
The Council should also ensure that balanced and mixed developments come forward to avoid scheme which fail to create communities and enhance social cohesion. The overprovision of smaller housing in specific areas may lead to transient populations and development which does not meet the definition of sustainable development.
See Letters
Object
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9407
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Mr M Trentham
The Council would also do well to consider that such rules might produce exactly the opposite result from that intended. building more small market homes, developers will build fewer but larger affordable dwellings, in order to preserve the profitability of the development. In such a case you may well end up with fewer than 40% by number. Another effect of being over-generous with affordables is that the occupiers will have no incentive to move out and acquire market housing of their own, even when they become financially able to buy, so more and more affordables will be required.
see letter of response re: Knowle sites
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9517
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: The Knowle Society
Rather than incentivise such an approach, minimum standards should be set of accommodation intended for families of a certain number of people.
Market research by developers highlight detailed awareness of demand in any location for new housing. The suggestion is that the Council should impose pre-stated minimum areas for each home relative to its intended occupancy as a matter of high importance.
the responses in the attached letter have been made by the Knowle Society
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9581
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Bloor Homes
Agent: Savills
The approach most developers take to housing sites is one of market demand. Where there is a strong demand for smaller market houses then house builders will build them. To rigidly require house builders to build more smaller houses may reduce the ability to meet the market requirements for larger 3 and 4 bed houses. If the supply of these houses is artificially restricted then there is a risk that asking prices would increase which could in turn affect the asking price of smaller properties. Whilst some guidance is expected, a policy influence on the market housing mix is unnecessary.
Please see attached representations and a detailed promotion document on behalf of my client, Bloor Homes, in response to the Solihull Local Plan Supplementary Consultation document.
Land East of Tilehouse Lane Tidbury Green
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9609
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Dickens Heath Residents Association
The Residents Association supports the retention of the existing unit number policy for measuring affordable housing provision.
Ref. Solihull Draft Local Plan Review - Supplementary Consultation January 2019
The Dickens Heath Residents Association welcomes the reduction in planned housing numbers on site 4 and deletion of site 13 with its access onto the B3102 Tanworth Lane Traffic Islands.
However based on the feedback from residents and the lack of information on addressing the existing traffic and infrastructure issues plus very widespread strong objections by the village to the Masterplan proposals to site 4 West of Dickens Heath we are objecting to the inclusion of this site.
In terms of the questionnaire we would respond to the relevant Questions as follows.
Scope of the consultation and overall assessment - while this indicates the objectives of the review when viewed in context it does not address the concerns raised by residents over existing well known traffic congestion issues and an inadequate rural highway network.
Dickens Heath Residents Association therefor strongly object to the Masterplan proposals for site 4.
A petition is being submitted to Solihull Council by Councillor Hawkins indicating some 1150 residents have lodged objection to site 4 in addition to a significant number of Emailed objections submitted to the Parish Council. We have also attended recent meetings at which the proposals have been presented and discussed and noted the level of objection and lack of any public support for the proposal at site 4.
Q 4 Blythe Infrastructure - its indicated highway improvements are only likely to be needed and off-street parking improvements at Dickens Heath only may be needed which does nothing to reassure residents that if site 4 were to be approved and included the council would provide the necessary infrastructure.
On sports and recreation lost provision is indicated as would be replaced but there are no sites indicated in the site 4 Masterplan.
The residents association regard it as a key priority that any future redevelopment ensures the existing sports grounds are retained within site 4
Q12 Site 4 Land West of Dickens Heath - while noting the councils laudable intentions to protect landscape features residents cannot be expected to support the inclusion of site 4 by writing a blank cheque for the proposed housing numbers given the experience of the totally inadequate highway infrastructure provided for the original Dickens Heath village as against its concept plan.
While it is understood that issues of highways and parking will be brought forward it is not possible to envisage how any satisfactory highway scheme could be implemented that would address both the proposed housing and ameliorate the existing congestion issues.
In respect of relocating the long established sports grounds for Old Yardleians Rugby Club, Highgate United FC, and Leafield FC these clubs have significant local support and the Residents Association would require alternative provision to an adequate standard within site 4.
The Residents Association is strongly opposed to an alternative more remote location into green belt countryside elsewhere.
Q14 Site 12 Land South of Dog Kennel Lane - this is adjacent to our Parish and impacts onto the main Dickens Heath traffic access. This site if included would need significant traffic attenuation measures.
Q34 Washed over green belt settlements - the Residents Association support the policy proposals at Whitlock's End and Cheswick Green subject to careful assessment of flooding issues at Cheswick Green sites.
Q38 Amber Sites - the Residents Association support the review and inclusion of all the Amber Sites as proposed.
Q40, 41, 42 & 43 Affordable Housing Policy - the Residents Association supports the retention of the existing unit number policy for measuring affordable housing provision.
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9626
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Balsall Parish Council
This potential policy proposal to use a percentage of square meter floorspace, percentage of bedrooms or percentage of habitable rooms could lead to undesirable unintended consequences.
Such a scheme should not be used without evidence from such an approach already in use achieving an improvement in provision of affordable housing.
SMBC should have regard to the emerging Balsall Parish NDP Policy H. 7
Please find attached Balsall Parish Council response to the SLP supplementary consultation.
Object
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9643
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: David Wilson Homes
Agent: Barton Willmore Planning
Individual sites should cater for a wide range of housing types and sizes. Provision of only small dwellings on sites will not develop long term sustainable communities. Instead it will result in a transient community where people will not be able to form long term neighbourhoods as they will need to move on as their circumstances change, if there are insufficient homes of the right size on a site to accommodate them.
Do not consider this represents good planning, focus should be on building strong healthy communities which can cater for all rather than simply planning for short term ownership.
We are instructed by our client, David Wilson Homes Ltd, to submit representations to the supplementary consultation on the Draft Local Plan Review in relation to their interests at their site at Tidbury Green Golf Club (known as Arden Green).
Comment
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9743
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Heyford Developments Ltd
Agent: Harris Lamb
Importance of evidence in up to date SHMA/HNA to show need for more smaller market housing. Could incentivise developers by requiring less developer contributions elsewhere in development.
see letter
promoting land to the West of Diddington Lane HIA
Object
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 9853
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: William Davis Ltd
Agent: Define Planning & Design
WDL propose that all households should have access to different types of dwellings to meet their housing needs and that market signals are an important factor in determining the size and type of homes needed. Furthermore, the Council should focus on ensuring that there are appropriate sites (providing a wide range of types across a wide range of locations) allocated to meet the needs of specifically identified groups of households, such as families, older people and / or self-build, rather than setting a specific housing mix on individual sites.
Please find attached our full representations to the above consultation that are submitted on behalf of William Davis Limited re: land at Station Road Hampton in Arden