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Representation ID: 5941

Received: 08/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Tom Tagg

Please refer to my response to 3.2.
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:
• 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.