Object

Representation ID: 1737

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: St Philips Land Ltd

Agent: Lichfields

Recent judgment are clear that reasonable alternatives must be identified and assessed to provide adequate reasoning for why sites should be preferred or rejected in favour of alternative means.

Whilst the Council appears to have included a range of reasonable alternative sites in the Wheaton Aston Cluster within the SA and HSSTP, St Philips consider the methodology and assessment of individual sites to be flawed. The SA has assessed 15 sites within the Wheaton Aston Cluster for future residential led development and sets out overall scores within Section
B.26.

Whilst the sites assessed in the Wheaton Aston Cluster do score similarly overall, it should be noted that a comparison of the SA’s scoring of St Philips’ sites and the proposed allocations show that the Council’s preferred site ref: 610 performs worse than both St Philips’ sites in
terms of both climate change adaption and landscape impact. As such, it cannot be considered to be the most sustainable option for future housing allocation within the open countryside adjoining the village.