Object

Representation ID: 11012

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: The Strategic Land Group

Agent: Walsingham Planning

Housing Need and Requirement

The Local Plan should include a minimum annual local housing requirement of 2,300 dwellings per annum, instead of 1,704 per year, to take into account the requirements of the NPPF and PPG to apply a 35% cities and urban centres uplift in the Top 20 cities/urban centres. The uplift cannot be excluded, discounted or removed and must form one of the defined stages of the standard method. It should be met across the District’s various settlements/areas and by appropriate levels of Green Belt release to enable the minimum need figure to be met/exceeded.
The Core Strategy (2017) includes a higher requirement of 2,476 dwellings, showing that an increase requirement can be accommodated.

There is a need for additional sites, including the release of Green Belt land as well as brownfield/underutilised land. Land at Haworth Road, Sandy Lane (SHLAA Ref: NW/020) is proposed to assist in meeting this requirement.