Object

Representation ID: 5930

Received: 08/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Tom Tagg

With the excessive housing requirement set by the standard method, BBC need to mitigate this with the contingencies that they currently hold. Specific examples are:
• Brownfield land at Stewartby – BBC have only allocated a small part of this for development. The remainder that is held as contingency should be allocated to the additional growth needed for Local Plan 2040, thus reducing the 12,500 new dwellings needed.
• Windfall sites; The Small Sites Topic Paper demonstrates that for the last 5 years BBC easily meets it’s 10% housing requirement on small sites by windfall development. Windfall development is held as a contingency outside the current plan allocation. In the face of the excessive standard method demands, BBC should include windfall development of 10% within the additional 12,500 dwellings needed thus reducing this figure by approx. 1,250 houses.
• The Small Sites Topic Paper demonstrates an expected excess of small sites over the 10% requirement to 2040 of 920 houses. This should also be used to reduce the 12,500 figure.
By the above three items the 12,500 figure could be easily reduced to below 10,000 new dwellings for allocation in Local Plan 2040. This would then be a very similar number to the 970 new homes annual requirement in the adopted 2030 plan, thus requiring little, if any, allocation of new development to meet the excessive Local Plan 2040 requirements.