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Representation ID: 29683

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Redrow Homes

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Housing Distribution - Ilkley

The Council have applied an urban focus uplift in terms of the distribution of development but without applying an uplift to the overall requirement. This results in a whole shift away from the distribution in the adopted Core Strategy, with disproportionate reductions to the majority of sustainable settlements and sub areas in the District, including Ilkley.

Ilkley has seen significant reductions in its housing apportionment, with the Adopted Core Strategy requiring 1,000 dwellings, which was reduced to 500 in the Core Strategy Partial Review and now proposes a further reduction to 300 dwellings in the Draft Local Plan. This falls significantly short of the baseline population proportionate distribution which is 756.

The 35% uplift to the housing requirement should apply to Ilkley.

As a starting point a target of 657 for Ilkley is proposed resulting in the need to find sites for an additional 357 dwellings.