Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation

Object

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.

Comment

Representation ID: 9893

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: David Wilson Homes

Agent: Barton Willmore Planning

Barton Willmore Housing Need Technical Note
Summary of Finding:
* Government have reiterated that the SM represents 'minimum' housing need, and it should represent the 'starting point' for planning;
* Revised PPG confirms that 'actual housing need may be higher' than the SM minimum;
* Revised NPPF states how inadequate housing should not form a barrier to investment;
* Recent technical consultation responses confirm Government's stance that 2014-based household projections are to be used for the SM and not the 2016-based projections;
* Revised PPG confirms that the 2016-based ONS household projections cannot be used as an 'exceptional circumstance' to justify a minimum housing need figure below SM;
* The Standard Method will be revised within the next 18 months.
* Barton Willmore have tested the level of housing required to support the range of job growth published by PBA's Employment Land Review (Jan 2017). This shows need of between 825 and 926 dwellings per annum over the Plan period, just to meet the baseline level of job growth set out in the Council's Employment Land Review.
* To achieve the UK Hub scenario, between 1,019 and 1,127 dwellings per annum would be required. N.B. The UK Hub scenario is considered to be a conservative projection in the context of historic job growth, and should be at least 1,225 jobs p.a. not 1,080.
* Additionally, Solihull has a duty to deliver a share of the unmet need from the wider HMA, which ranges from 28,000 up to 2031 to 80,000 up to 2036 on the basis of recent evidence base documents in the public domain.

Object

Representation ID: 9894

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: David Wilson Homes

Agent: Barton Willmore Planning

We strongly object to the way in which Site 426 has been assessed in the site selection process for the reasons which are set out in the attached letter - and on that basis, object to the inconsistent application of the methodology

Object

Representation ID: 9895

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: David Wilson Homes

Agent: Barton Willmore Planning

We strongly object to the way in which Site 426 has been assessed in the site selection process
see letter for detail

Comment

Representation ID: 9896

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: David Wilson Homes

Agent: Barton Willmore Planning

Balsall Common sites Q3 - to Q10 - see detail in letter

Comment

Representation ID: 9897

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: David Wilson Homes

Agent: Barton Willmore Planning

Site 4 proposes the redevelopment of existing sports pitches which are well used without appropriate plans in place for the re-provision of this local facility.
It is noted that the identification of a Local Wildlife Site within the site hampers re-provision within the site itself and therefore alternative options will need to be pursued.
We consider that these alternatives should be considered, especially as alternatives within Green Belt, which may, for example, include floodlighting, will have to be carefully considered against the Green Belt 'tests'.
Understand loss of these facilities, with no real alternatives proposed, is causing particular local concern.

Object

Representation ID: 9898

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: David Wilson Homes

Agent: Barton Willmore Planning

Q40 to Q43
see detail in letter

Object

Representation ID: 10486

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: David Wilson Homes

Agent: Barton Willmore Planning

Objection to scale of development proposed in Balsall Common:
1,700 dwellings to a single rural village appears completely disproportionate.
No discussion on how proposed new infrastructure such as school, bypass, station car park and improved public transport will be funded.
Bypass would draw trade away from the existing centre.
No capacity study carried out for the area.
Ability of the market to absorb and deliver multiple sites at any one time in a rural location should be reviewed.
Balsall Common will be acutely affected by HS2 - both in terms of the physical construction of the line and the disruption and uncertainty that this will bring; but also in terms of market desirability until such time as the line is constructed.
Site 1 in multiple ownerships adding to complexity.