Comment

Representation ID: 29045

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Anne & H Graham Peacock

Number of people: 2

We were involved in the core strategy process and the Ilkley Neighbourhood Plan.

At those times surveys demonstrated the need for smaller suitable housing units for starter homes and equally for older people wishing to downsize and release larger houses for families in middle years. There was NOT demand within the town’s residents for yet more 4 or 5 bedroom houses of the type most profitable to developers.

The existing part of the ‘Local Plan’ particularly the core strategy was derived pre-Brexit and pre-Covid. We believe a different mix of housing needs will become clearer as the country emerges from the changes arising from these significant events.

The Local Plan should take account of the new economic ways of working and the changed social landscape which will emerge over the next years as the country adapts to these profound events.