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Representation ID: 28526

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Chartford Homes

Agent: Barton Wilmore

The policy will require future developments outside of town, district, city and principal town centres to deliver developments at a density of 35 dwellings per hectare , which is an increase from 30 dwellings per hectare in the adopted Core Strategy .

Furthermore, in the adopted Core Strategy, only areas within city centres and principal town centres were required to ‘possibly’ achieve densities over 30 dwellings per hectare, however there is now a requirement to achieve at least 50 dwellings per hectare. Whilst it is assumed this has been done to minimise the loss of Green Belt land, it will be at the expense of design. There are ever increasing requirements for new residential proposals such as provision of open space, biodiversity enhancements and space standards and it is considered that when all these matters are factored in, increasing density will put a strain on development proposals.