Providing Homes for All

Object

Representation ID: 10645

Received: 09/11/2020

Respondent: Hampton-in-Arden Parish Council and Catherine-de-Barnes Residents' Association

Number of people: 153

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The planning regulations need to ensure developers deliver sites with planning approval, and introduce regulations to ensure derelict /empty properties are developed, to ensure that only development that is truly necessary and warranted is allocated.

Object

Representation ID: 13943

Received: 13/12/2020

Respondent: Councillor T Hodgson

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Housing need:
- Recognise that Solihull, as rest of country, is facing a housing crisis
- Troubled by position of young people being able to access affordable homes
- Council has recently encouraged older persons accommodation, now a surplus for over 55s in Shirley, while younger people struggle to be housed.

Object

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.

Object

Representation ID: 14418

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: L&Q Estates - Damson Parkway

Agent: Pegasus Group

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Omission Site 195/528 should be allocated for residential development of 9 hectares consisting of a range of dwelling types and sizes including Extra Care residential development and affordable housing, together with public open space and private land. Site is accessible, close to significant employment areas, available, suitable and achievable.
Dispute conclusions of Site Assessment. Green Belt is moderately performing and clear physical boundaries can be provided, with landscape and green infrastructure to provide further containment. Site would have low impact on criteria in SHELAA and Sustainability Appraisal.
As a minimum, site should be safeguarded for future needs, but given urgent unmet needs should be allocated now

Object

Representation ID: 14478

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: Catesby Estates Limited

Agent: Terence O'Rourke

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The mix of social rented and shared ownership housing proposed in Policy P4A 7 and 8 differs from that proposed in the referendum version of the Balsall Parish NDP and the HEDNA, which propose ranges of unit size. The policy contains factors influencing provision which suggest that a range is more pragmatic, and that the approach is overly prescriptive and inflexible.
The mix range should be provided in a table contained within the supporting text which accompanies the policy, as opposed to the policy wording itself.