Preferred Options November 2021

Object

Representation ID: 1956

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Completelink Ltd

Agent: Zesta Planning Ltd

Authority Monitoring Reports indicate that the Council’s 2012 Core Strategy specialist housing needs have not been met and require an additional 386 additional bed spaces over the next 4 years. Currently only 23 bed spaces per annum have been achieved over the plan period so the needs will not be met under current policy.

Table 7.2 of the SHMA indicates 568 additional specialist accommodation bedspaces will be required up to 2038 alongside an additional need for 893 Registered Care spaces between 2018-38. The local plan fails to discuss meeting Registered Care spaces at all. The Council has failed to assess Tier 3 or 4 settlements or consider options to expand established existing specialist accommodation sites. The assumption that older people will seek accommodation within their village seems parochial.

Site Selection Topic Paper 2021 gives no clarification on how many specialist dwellings would be delivered on Sites 536a and 079. No specific reasons are given for not allocating specialist accommodation in Codsall/Bilbrook. No reasons are given for discounting established specialist care facilities (such as Prestwood House Care Home & Estate) near to Kinver.

Object

Representation ID: 1957

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Completelink Ltd

Agent: Zesta Planning Ltd

No. Strategic Objective 3 states the plan will provide housing to meet the needs of an aging population but the Preferred Options fails to meet needs for specialist accommodation or Registered Care.

Support

Representation ID: 1958

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Completelink Ltd

Agent: Zesta Planning Ltd

The new settlement is likely to come forward 17 years into the future but there is a pressing need for specialist accommodation today. No mention of specialist accommodation within the policy.

Object

Representation ID: 1959

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Completelink Ltd

Agent: Zesta Planning Ltd

Policies SA1-4 fail to make any specific reference to specialist accommodation provision despite established needs, focusing solely on affordable and market housing, and are all in the north of the District skewing housing need distribution.

Object

Representation ID: 1960

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Completelink Ltd

Agent: Zesta Planning Ltd

Do not support housing allocations. Only two sites identified with an element of specialist accommodation, neither of which are likely to be used solely for specialist accommodation. Even if both sites were they would only represent 22% of need. The established need is Council-wide but both sites are in the north. Both sites are in Green Belt, implying that further Green Belt release is required to meet unmet specialist needs. Kinver has 3 allocations but no requirement for specialist accommodation, despite clear need.

Object

Representation ID: 1961

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Completelink Ltd

Agent: Zesta Planning Ltd

Policy HC4 is too vague in relation to requirement for a ‘clear contribution’ from major development. Major development providing a few bungalows will not meet the District’s specialist accommodation needs.

Support

Representation ID: 3942

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Completelink Ltd

Agent: Zesta Planning Ltd

Support Policy HC5.