Preferred Options November 2021

Object

Representation ID: 3664

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

No. The housing evidence base which underpins the draft Plan’s housing strategy is lacking detail. The housing requirement proposed by the draft Plan is unsound. It fails to reflect the most recent information available on the extent of the housing shortfall arising from the conurbation and fails to acknowledge the important role South Staffordshire needs to play in supporting housing growth to meet the development needs of the Black Country and Birmingham.

Object

Representation ID: 3667

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

The infrastructure requirements included within the IDP are based upon the Preferred Options Plan’s housing and employment development targets. Viewed that the emerging Plan makes insufficient provision for housing development. That being the case, the IDP plans for an insufficient level of development. The IDP will need
updating in due course should the housing and employment requirements be increased

Object

Representation ID: 3668

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

Objection as the Plan is views as inappropriate.

The Framework identifies three overarching objectives that together constitute sustainable development, with parts of the economic and social objectives largely being ignored by the Vision.

t the Vision should be amended to introduce additional text to confirm that South Staffordshire will deliver sufficient land of the right type to meet the economic and housing growth requirements of South Staffordshire and to support the growth of the conurbation.

Objection to Strategic Objective 1 as this should be altered to reflect the fact Preferred Options plan identifies that Green Belt release is necessary and that exceptional
circumstances exist.

Strategic Objectives 3, 4 and 5 are designed to address ‘homes and communities’. However, within any of the Strategic Objectives for Housing is reference made to providing a sufficient quantum of housing to support the growing number of households within South
Staffordshire, ensuring that enough homes are available to accommodate South Staffordshire’s working population, or to supporting the growth requirements of the conurbation.

Object

Representation ID: 3669

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

The approach to The Spatial Strategy 2038 is viewed as inappropriate as the emerging plan should pan for the minimum standard method housing requirement from the start of the plan period as a baseline, which the SSHMA advises is 5,068 dwellings.

South Staffordshire Council has not correctly factored in affordable housing need and whether an uplift to the District housing requirement is required and not considered uplifting the minimum Standard Method housing figure to take account of economic growth aspirations and the fact that the age profile of South Staffordshire is increasing.


The emerging Local Plan needs to be consider with how the needs of South Staffordshire and the overspill of the Black Country are considered and presented, to make sure that all the relevant housing needs are being met.

Object

Representation ID: 3670

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

Economic Growth

It is not clear from the information available and further
consideration should be given to whether an uplift in the housing requirement would ensure that sufficient houses are available to support the local workforce

Object

Representation ID: 3671

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

Black Country Overspill and Combined shortfall

South Staffordshire draft proposed 4,000 dwellings to contribute toward the shortfall. Consequently, there is clear evidence to suggest that South Staffordshire should be taking a greater proportion of development than other authorities within the HMA given the level of shortfall identified.

The number of homes being planned to contribute to addressing the shortfall should be increased significantly.

Object

Representation ID: 3672

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

Spatial Strategy for Housing

Concerns about the number of dwellings being proposed to meet the identified shortfall, Table 8 of the draft Plan advises that only 2,958 of the 4000 dwellings are
proposed adjacent to the edge of the Black Country conurbation.

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.

Policy DS3 advises that development will be located at the most accessible and sustainable locations in accordance with the settlement hierarchy included within the policy.

Piper Homes’ site at Springhill Lane, 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 and assist in meeting the full
spectrum of need identified.

Support

Representation ID: 3673

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Piper Homes PLC

Agent: Harris Lamb Property Consultancy

The land at Springhill Lane should be removed from the Green Belt and allocated for residential led development to provide much need executive homes to assist in
meeting the economic growth aspirations of the Black Country and South Staffordshire.

The Site has not been assessed by the Council to date. It is also a new opportunity for Piper Homes.The site measures approximately 5.4 hectares. 3.7 hectares is grassland and would be the
focus of the residential development. The remaining 1.7 hectares is treed, and these would be retained and provide a very attractive environment for future residents.
The site is in the Green Belt at the current time, but it is extremely well contained, with built development and sports facilities to the north and south, and dense tree belts to the west.