Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 17836
Received: 10/05/2016
Respondent: Southend on Sea Council
The duty to cooperate provides a mechanism for strategic matters to be addressed to ensure that development needs are planned for on a wider than local basis. Moreover it enables local authorities that are confronted by particular environmental and geographic constraints to address their development needs, inline with Paragraph 182 of the NPPF. In summary, national policy and guidance is clear that a local plan should:
prepare a SHMA to assess full housing needs
provide a delivery strategy that is clear in terms of where, when and how housing need will be delivered over the full plan period
meet full, objectively assessed housing need for market and affordable housing
meet the legal duty to cooperate and incorporate allowances for unmet requirements from neighbouring authorities where it is reasonable to do so; and
boost significantly the supply of housing and ensure a deliverable five year housing land
supply with an appropriate buffer can be maintained at all times.
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