Object
Proposed Submission Core Strategy
Representation ID: 20555
Received: 21/09/2011
Respondent: Croudace Strategic Ltd
Agent: Portchester Planning Consultancy
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
The Council should not be seeking to reduce its housing target if the Bexhill/Hastings link road fails to secure funding because this would mean that the plan would fail to make provsion to accommodate the 3,918 new households projected to form in the District in the period 2011 to 2026.
The Core Strategy should indicate, in a contingency plan how it would re-distribute the link road dependent housing to other parts of the District, including the Rural Service Centres, in accordance with the advice in paragraph 4.10 of PPS12.
If the housing target of 3,700 to 4,100 dwellings for the period 2011 to 2028 was to be reduced as a consequence of the Bexhill/Hastings link road not receiving funding the result would be that the Core Strategy would fail to make provsion to accommodate the 3,918 additional housholds projected in figure 2.7 of the 2010 SHMA Up-date Report which will form during the plan period. This would be a fundamental failure of the plan.
The Council should include a contingency plan in its Core Strategy indicating how it would address such circumstances and re-distribute the link road dependent housing to other parts of the District, including the Rural Service Centres such as Robertsbridge.