Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 14974
Received: 26/04/2016
Respondent: Ursuline Sisters
Agent: JTS Partnership LLP
The deliverability of the Strategic Site within the Plan Period is questioned. Included within this is Windfall Sites which are identified within Policy 5.2 as contributing 14%. The text (page 47) makes it clear that windfall makes an allowance for small scale development.
Given the dwindling supply of brownfield land within the urban area and the inherent unpredictability of the availability of windfall sites, it is not necessarily appropriate to continue to predict the availability at historic rates of provision. Against the backdrop of a relatively high proportion of housing supply overall, greater emphasis should be placed within the Local Plan on the importance of all windfall sites, regardless of their size, acknowledging the cumulative effect that even the smallest of sites providing 1 or 2 units, will have on housing supply and achieving the growth set out within Policy 5.2.
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