Publication Plan April 2024

Object

Representation ID: 6173

Received: 23/05/2024

Respondent: Nurton Developments Ltd

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The reference in the policy to a need of 62.4ha and supply of 107.45 is unreliable and should be subject to reassessment, both quantitatively and qaulitatively. Labour Demand model for identifying need is unreliable with a past trends model more likely to provide an accurate and reliable projection.

Nurton's assessment identifies a supply of no greater than 23.6ha (exc WMI). I54 Western extension and ROF Featherstone were allocated to meet the needs of the Black Country and so should not be included. Nurton identify a need of at least 86.6ha when taking account of a 18.8ha contribution from WMI, The exclusion of 'atypical' development when considering past trends is flawed.

The West Midlands Strategic Employment Sites Study 2021 identifies a need for strategic employment sites within the Black Country and South Staffordshire and should be expressly referred to in Policy DS4.This reference underscores the opportunity provided by the M54/M6 link road for unlocking development potential for strategic employment sites.

Object

Representation ID: 6178

Received: 23/05/2024

Respondent: Nurton Developments Ltd

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Assessment of Hilton Park at Junction 11 of M6 is flawed. The site includes a number of significant advantages including access to M6 Junction 11 and it's location to principle settlements in the area (Black Country, Cannock, Stafford and Lichfield) giving good access to labour supply. The site is a large site strategic in scale and regular shaped and free of major constraints. The locational advantages of the site improve when the M54/M6 link road is built.

JLL Technical note on deliverability produced with analysis by expert consultants covering transportation, drainage, ecology, utilities and services, topograpghy and masterplanning demonstrate that the site is deliverable. Concerned that the information supplied has not been taken into account in site assessment.

Site scored highly in the 2021 West Midlands Strategic Employment Sites Study and presents a better opportunity than the proposed allocation at Junction 13 due to its location and meeting the WMSESS criteria in terms of scale. Concern that the Council's Green Belt assessment has not taken account of the approved M54/M6 link road in updating the Green Belt assessment harm rating for the site.