Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15605
Received: 05/05/2016
Respondent: Croudace Strategic Ltd
Agent: Barton Willmore
In supporting text to Policy 7.5, paragraph 7.57 notes that the SHMA suggests a 35% affordable housing target on "all suitable sites" to be justified, subject to viability and the balance of tenure mix. There is no evidence to demonstrate that BBC has undertaken a viability assessment to establish whether a 35% target is viable. This Policy requirement therefore does not accordance with NPPF in that sustainable development requires careful attention to viability and costs in plan-making and decision-taking, and therefore the scale of obligations and policy burdens (such as affordable housing) should not be such that development viability is threatened.
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