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Representation ID: 4796

Received: 21/12/2022

Respondent: L&Q Estates Limited

Agent: Marrons Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

A disproportionately low level of growth is directed to the edge of Wolverhampton, as only 2,790 dwellings are adjacent to the edge of Wolverhampton's administrative boundary despite a 4,000 contribution to GBBCHMA unmet needs being proposed. There is a lack of diversity in the scale of allocations directed towards the edge of Wolverhampton, which will mean contributions to unmet needs are not delivered for a number of years. No detailed housing trajectory is proposed, but evidence of national build rates and lead-in times from the Lichfields Start to Finish report indicates that sites between 1,000 and 1,500 dwellings in scale will not commence until 6.9 years after permission is granted and will only then build out at 107 dwellings per annum. As a result it is considered that only 963 dwellings can be delivered at each of Land at Cross Green and Land north of Linthouse Lane in the proposed plan period. Clear delivery evidence should be provided to support the allocation of Land at Cross Green and Land north of Linthouse Lane, including a detailed delivery programme.

Further growth should be allocated on the edge of Wolverhampton including smaller sites which are deliverable in the early part of the plan period, including Land off Bridgnorth Road, Wightwick.