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Representation ID: 3386

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: IMCO Holdings

Agent: Tetra Tech (Manchester)

Housing Need and Requirement

Policy Parts A and B - The housing requirement target of 30,672 does not appropriately adopt the Government’s required 35% “cites and urban centres” uplift and its application for the District. The housing strategy is not suitably ambitious to address the District’s housing requirements in this regard and is a significant backwards step from the adopted Core Strategy. Further Green Belt release should appropriately be planned for through a greater dispersion of the housing need across the settlement hierarchy.

• It is our view that the overall housing requirement target of 30,672 for the District is not sufficiently ambitious and that the Plan should seek to meet the Government’s 35% “cities and urban centres” uplift within its housing targets.