Object
Local Plan 2015-2030 Preferred Options for Consultation
Representation ID: 922
Received: 02/10/2013
Respondent: Martin Grant Homes
Agent: Pegusus Group
Martin Grant Homes object to the proposition contained in Policy S2 that provision be made for the construction of 3,500 new dwellings in the period 2015-2030. When assessed across the Plan period as a whole, this implies an annual average rate of 233 completions. Such a rate of delivery is inappropriate when considered in the context of paragraph 2.30 of the Preferred Options which states that "a figure of somewhere between 331 and 362 homes a year would represent objectively assessed need for the Borough."
Martin Grant Homes note the reference at paragraph 2.30 of the Preferred Options to the study carried out on behalf of the Council by Peter Brett Associates. However, the Council's website does not contain that report and it is unhelpful/inappropriate for the Preferred Options for Consultation to be published without that important element of the evidence base.
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