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Representation ID: 1906

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Taylor Wimpey

Agent: Lichfields

Policy HC7 - Self & Custom Build Housing
Consider that the Council’s policy should explicitly set out the evidence against which applicants should establish whether there is an ‘identified need’. In particular, the Council does not publish annually any data on the level of demand for SCHB, or how it has met its statutory duty to grant suitable permissions for the SCHB plots within the monitoring year. We also note that this policy requirement does not appear to have been properly considered in the Local Plan Viability Assessment.
Taylor Wimpey therefore considers that the policy requirement for major residential development to have regard to any need identified on the self-build and custom housebuilding register, with provision to be agreed on a site-by-site basis, should be deleted and the Council
should identify stand-alone sites which are specifically allocated to meet the local demand for self and custom build dwellings.