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Representation ID: 1884

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Taylor Wimpey

Agent: Lichfields

Quotes the Hart Local Plan examination where the inspector raised concerns over a new settlement promoted within that Plan. The Inspector concluded that Plan established the ‘principle’ of the new settlement as the most appropriate growth strategy for meeting the Council’s long-term needs within a relatively confined area of search. However, he highlighted that the Plan had not tested other reasonable alternatives to a new settlement. As a result, he concluded that the policy, and therefore the new settlement, should be removed from the plan.
Taking the above together, it is considered that identifying a new settlement within this plan period is unnecessary, as it would not serve to meet the District’s, or GBBCHMA’s, housing needs in this plan period. Fundamentally considers that the Council have provided insufficient justification for why such an approach is necessary, and invariably such an approach
is likely to be found unsound at EiP. To this end, the Council should omit this policy from the draft Local Plan review as it is not necessary to make the plan sound.