Object
Main Modifications to the Proposed Submission Core Strategy
Representation ID: 21552
Received: 27/09/2013
Respondent: Mr & Miss Parker
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
The text states the modified village housing numbers are unrelated to the individual settlement needs. The objective is to maximise housing growth in the villages to contribute to the district-wide housing figure of 5700 new houses. This objective conflicts with the NPPF paragraph 54 and with Rother's draft Strategy, which remains unmodified.
The entire process is flawed as the modified numbers are led by the provisional identification of potential "development sites" in villages.
The paragraph refers to the negative impact on village policy objectives identified in the SA, therefore the increased housing numbers are assessed as sustainable is perverse.
The additional text is unsound and unjustified.
Firstly, the text states the modified village housing numbers are unrelated to the individual settlement needs. The objective is to maximise housing growth in the villages to contribute to the district-wide housing figure of 5700 new houses. This objective conflicts with the NPPF paragraph 54 and with Rother's draft Strategy, which remains unmodified.
Secondly, the entire process is flawed as the modified numbers are led by the provisional identification of potential "development sites" in villages. The correct procedure is to assess the need for new dwellings in individual villages to meet their local housing needs, in consultation with the villages, and then to seek to identify sites in the villages to meet their identified local needs through the neighbourhood planning and/or site allocations process.
Thirdly, the paragraph refers to the negative impact on village policy objectives identified in the SA of the modifications, therefore the observation the increased housing numbers are assessed as sustainable is perverse.