Comment

Representation ID: 11028

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: The Strategic Land Group

Agent: Walsingham Planning

The Strategic Land Group support the objectives and proposed outcomes of each of these Policies; the delivery of appropriate employment land, sites, zones, job creation and skill delivery are essential for the District’s future prosperity.

However, without the delivery of sufficient housing opportunities to support these initiatives, key elements of the District’s existing and future workforce will be lost and their skills and ambitions will be utilised in other localities.

The Draft Local Plan proposes the same annual scale of annual job creation as the adopted Core Strategy but contains a housing delivery target that is over 30% lower. For the proposed scale of job creation to be delivered and the strategic sites and enterprise and other zones to be developed and occupied the Draft Local Plan housing delivery target must be increased, as a minimum to reflect the figure derived from the standard method.