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Representation ID: 3576

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Heyford Developments

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

The housing allocations included within the Plan to support the growth of the conurbation should be directed to locations close to where the need arises. The Plan’s spatial strategy for housing should be predicated on making allocations adjacent to the conurbation
to meet its need, or within a sustainable commuting distance, to help reduce the need to travel. The housing requirement should be increased and redistributed so that further allocations are made adjacent to the built-up edge of the Black Country.

the GBHMA Strategic Growth Study is not a relevant evidence base against which to assess the suitability of sites or formulate a housing distribution strategy.

A sequence of smaller sites in appropriate locations, such Heyford’s site at Wall Heath, would not only make a positive and sensitive contribution to meeting the overspill, but would also provide sites that can be delivered in the short term.