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Object
Proposed Submission Core Strategy
Representation ID: 20612
Received: 21/09/2011
Respondent: Sedlescombe Parish Council
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
The requirement for affordable housing included in a development of houses to be indistinguishable from marketed properties is not justified and, if considered with Policy LHN1(ii) for properties in rural aras to be one or two bedroom dwellings, all properties in the rural areas will, in the future, be small. This will not provide sufficient family size homes to support our local primary school.
The requirement for affordable housing included in a development of houses to be indistinguishable from marketed properties is not justified and, if considered with Policy LHN1(ii) for properties in rural aras to be one or two bedroom dwellings, all properties in the rural areas will, in the future, be small. This will not provide sufficient family size homes to support our local primary school.
Object
Proposed Submission Core Strategy
Representation ID: 20967
Received: 09/11/2011
Respondent: Strategic Land Kent Ltd
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
The 40% affordable housing figure is too onerous as an inflexible percentage. This should be a target or goal in order to provide more flexibility for schemes to be commercially viable. The threshold of 5 dwellings is too low and should be set at a higher level of say 14 which in recent years has been the norm. Currently, the proposals as set out will stop housing coming forward and there needs to be a more liberal attitude to creating a workable policy. At the proposed level landowners will not release their land and the social housing provision will decrease.
We wish to comment on point (iv) relating to 'Rural Areas'. In our view the 40% affordable housing figure is too onerous as an inflexible percentage. This should be set out as a target or goal in order to provide more flexibility for schemes to be commercially viable. The threshold of 5 dwellings is also too low and this should be set at a higher level of say 14 which in recent years has been the norm in most Districts. Currently, the proposals as set out will stop housing coming forward and there needs to be a more liberal attitude to creating a workable policy. At the proposed level landowners will not release their land and the social housing provision will decrease.