Draft Local Plan Review

No

Representation ID: 2026

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

SHELAA Site 6 - land off Old Station Road, Hampton in Arden.
Location and aspect mean that it is not a particularly sensitive part of the Green Belt.
Role considered incidental to the main purposes of the Green Belt around Birmingham and Solihull.
Screening by mature trees.
Bordered on two sides by existing development.
Infilling an existing gap in the suburban frontage.
2km from Catherine de Barnes.
Merits recognises in Green Belt Assessment.
Accessible location.
Would not affect Conservation Area.
Not in the floodplain.
No nature conservation designations.
Site can be appropriately accessed.
No issues with utilities.
Site deliverable.

Yes

Representation ID: 2027

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

Agree with overarching spatial strategy.
Exceptional circumstances for Green Belt release exist.
Disagree that Hampton-in-Arden is a settlement with a limited range of services.

No

Representation ID: 2028

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

Support the provision of an appropriate and viable mix of dwelling types, tenures and sizes in new developments.
Unduly prescriptive and premature to precisely set the market housing mix on future developments or briefs.
Requires more flexibility.
Should recognise difference between need and demand. Actual demand is still for larger properties. Larger properties are more sustainable as more flexible living accommodation over time.
Housing mix should be decided at planning application stage.

No

Representation ID: 2029

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

SHMA states affordable housing need is 26.9% of proposed housing requirement.
50% affordable housing target therefore excessive.
Recent Housing White Paper confirms that starter homes will not be an additional requirement over and above the affordable homes requirements as currently suggested in DLP.
Viability caveat is welcome.
SMBC need to demonstrate viability of delivering all of policy objectives plus CIL before setting the affordable housing target.

Yes

Representation ID: 2030

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

Support Option 1.

Option 2, if progressed, should only be on a 'seek to negotiate' basis rather than prescriptive.
Needs robust evidence of need.

No

Representation ID: 2031

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

SHMA is not an OAHN for Greater Birmingham HMA.
GBHMA Stage 3 Report uses 2012 SNHP therefore is not up-to-date.
Housing and Employment strategies must be properly aligned - no adjustment to support economic growth generated by HS2 Hub in Solihull.
Assessment of worsening market signals, affordable housing need and supporting economic growth should have been calculated for the whole HMA.
10% uplift to address affordability is too conservative.
No evidence to justify 2,000 dwellings to meet HMA needs; meagre amount.
Not yet been a positive outcome to Duty-to-Cooperate engagement.
Discount of 10% uplift from HMA shortfall is illogical.

No

Representation ID: 2032

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

Policy P7 - Intent is supported but focus is too narrow on accessibility to bus and rail.
30 mins bus frequency is unduly onerous.
Will frustrate development of several sites coming forward.
Conflicts with Atkins Accessibility Study.
Policy should be revised to reflect Para. 17 of NPPF.

No

Representation ID: 2033

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

Policy P11 - Requirement for higher optional water efficiency standard of 110 L per day per person cannot be justified and should be removed.
PPG clear this can only be applied in areas of water stress; not justified by Water Cycle Study.

Yes

Representation ID: 2034

Received: 16/02/2017

Respondent: William Davis Ltd

Agent: Define Planning & Design

Policy P15 - Support intent of the policy.
Concerns about how policy will be interpreted and applied.
Lacks clarity.
Reference to Building for Life 10, and not 12, is presumably an error.