Draft Local Plan Review

Yes

Representation ID: 4086

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Site is deliverable.
Able to provide numbers early in the plan.
Delivery document could aid the Neighbourhood Planning process.
Existing key features would be retained or enhanced such as field boundary, footpath, topographical features, canal setting, acces points.
Landscape Strategy to be developed.
Flood Zone 1.
Accessible and sustainable location.
Can accomodate up to 120 dwellings.
Opportunities for children's play and on-site green space.
Protect trees and hedgerows where possible.
Create strong, defensible Green Belt boundaries.
Provide a mix of housing to meet lcoal needs.
High quality development.
Protect existing residential amenity.

Yes

Representation ID: 4087

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Consider right challenges have been identified.
Challenge B is key.
Recognised need to plan for economic growth and impacts of HS2 development.
Council should use this plan to set the correct minimum number of homes required within this plan period, set out how and where these homes are to be provided, with particular reference to Solihull's share of Birmingham's need.

Yes

Representation ID: 4088

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Agree with Vision.
Agree significant new development should be directed towards sustainable settlement of Dickens Heath to meet Borough's housing need.
Dickens Heath has number of services and good public transport links.
Dickens Heath is capable of accommodating and being enhanced by level of growth identified.

Yes

Representation ID: 4089

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Agree with spatial strategy.
Need to consider that currently Council cannot identify a five year housing land supply.
Larger strategic allocations likely to come forward later in plan period.
Vital to identify smaller, deliverable sites to provide housing numbers earlier in the plan period.
Land at Tythe Barn Lane (part of Site 4) can come forward independently as an early phase, without prejudicing larger site allocation.
Could provide affordable and market housing earlier in plan period as well as assist delivery of wider scheme.

Yes

Representation ID: 4090

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Agree with Policy P1.
Council should consider this push of economic and employment growth when deciding their objectively assessed housing needs, and associated market factors.

No

Representation ID: 4091

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Council should consider release or partial release of unviable or vacnat land to stimulate economic growth and to release equity to re-invest in modern facilities.
Would also provide opportunity for Starter Home exception sites.
In accordance with Para. 22 of NPPF.

No

Representation ID: 4092

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Agree that definition of affordable housing should include social rented, affordable rented, intermediate tenure and Starter Homes.
Object to level of affordable housing.

No

Representation ID: 4093

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Object to level of affordable housing sought.
Increase from 40% to 50% is likely to be a viability exercise for all schemes.
Up-to-date viability assessment should be published for comment.
Level of affordable housing and tenure split must reflect evidence in viability assessment as well as SHMA.
Must consider how level of affordable housing could prejudice realisation of other planning objectives.
Should the Council's development brief for each site allocation include details of likely market housing, then this needs to be evidenced by SHMA in combination with commerical knowledge of local market.

No

Representation ID: 4094

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Consider it is more appropriate to allocate specific sites for new build, rather than obliging developers to provide 5% of their open market dwellings as self-build.
We would advise that smaller sites accommdoting ca. 20 self-build homes would be more appropriate.

No

Representation ID: 4095

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Persimmon Homes Central

Disagree with housing numbers.
Starting point for FOAN should be 1,185 dwellings p.a.
Base date for provision should be 2011.
Take account of CLG-2014 household projections.
SHMA should not use actual prices rather than indexed prices to compare affordability.
Affordability uplift should be greater than 10%.
Should provide for more of HMA shortfall, and reflected in Green Belt Review.
Phasing is likely to impede delivery.
Encourage higher densities, e.g. 45dph, where possible.