Object

Representation ID: 18382

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Johnson Mowat

Johnson Mowat agrees that there is an ‘acute and intense need for housing (market and affordable)’ and a ‘shortage of alternative sites’ (i.e. insufficient capacity within non-Green Belt sites to meet the identified housing need).

Johnson Mowat supports the Council’s assessment that exception circumstances exist (as required by national policy) to allow the release of Green Belt land and the allocation of this for development.

In accordance with our comments made in relation to meeting identified need in full (see draft Policy SP8 below)) Johnson Mowat objects to the list of sites set out within parts B of draft Policy SP5 as the development achievable from these is either insufficient in total or inappropriate in other regards (as applicable) such that a revision to the lists is required. This is likely to require the addition of further sites to the lists and the removal of certain sites already listed.