Object

Representation ID: 4490

Received: 23/12/2023

Respondent: Green King Brewing and Retaling Ltd

Agent: Walsingham Planning

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Land to the north of the Chase Gate Pub should be allocated for a small/medium sized housing site. Currently the plan only allocates 7 small sites of 1ha or less and so does not meet the NPPF para 69 requirement for 10% of an authorities housing requirement to be on sites of 1ha or less. Therefore the plan is currently unsound.

No evidence has been provided to justify the Council's windfall allowance. No details are provided of the safeguarded land that contribute to supply as set out in Table 8 nor are they identified on the policies map. The sites do not appear to have been subject to appropriate scrutiny and comparison against other sites and their inclusion gives the impression of the housing requirement being exceeded when in actual fact there is a clear shortfall.

The site at owned by Green King and is free from insurmountable constraints and should be allocated to ensure the housing requirement is met. Whilst initial concerns have been raised by highways, they have not undertaken a detailed assessment and it is our clients, view that a safe and suitable means of access to the site can be provided, including potentially through using some of the current pub car park.The site is available, suitable and viable for residential development and could delivery up to 50 dwellings within a relatively short period of time.