Object

Representation ID: 19942

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Avant Homes

Agent: Tetra Tech (Leeds)

Housing Need and Requirement

The Government have introduced changes to the Standard Method for calculating housing requirements - it now requires a 35% uplift on housing numbers in the 20 largest cities and urban areas in England (of which Bradford is one).

The Council is failing to pursue this increased housing requirement.

Bradford has well documented evidence of the problems it has faced in terms of housing land supply, the 5 year housing land supply statement 2020-2025 details that over the period of 2013 – 2020 there has been a shortfall in the planned delivery of homes equalling 8,588 dwellings (a net figure of 9,069 dwellings).

We consider the Council has set a modest and unambitious target, to meet a minimum requirement but such an approach will only serve to compound delivery.

Overall, we consider the Local Plan is contrary the objectives of the NPPF para 59. “To support the Government’s objective of significantly boosting the supply of homes..... ”

We also suggest, as we did in the CSPR 2019, that the scale of need for affordable housing justifies an uplift to the overall housing requirement figure.