Object

Representation ID: 8483

Received: 27/09/2021

Respondent: Richborough Estates

Agent: Fisher German LLP

As previously set out, the Council have previously evidenced that settlements such as Turvey can deliver up to 150 dwellings in the period up to 2030. The emerging Local Plan looks beyond 2030 to 2040, and thus commensurate additional further growth in the sustainable rural settlements must be delivered during this extended time period. In Turvey, the 50 dwellings allocated in the emerging Neighbourhood Plan will not be sufficient for housing needs up to 2040. It is considered that sustainable growth in settlements such as Turvey, up to 2040, should be in the region of 50-100 additional dwellings (ontop of the 50 dwellings allocated in emerging Neighbourhood Plan i.e. 150 dwellings in total). This is consistent with the Councils previous evidence base, current housing targets, and commensurate to their sustainability and spatial role. As previously set out, we would object to any attempt to stifle appropriate rural growth.
In that regard, we consider the emerging Local Plan must make allocations in the Rural Service Centres to ensure a suitable distribution of deliverable development sites up to 2040. Within Turvey it is clear through both the evidence supporting the Neighbourhood Plan and the previous assessments supporting the adopted Local Plan (whereby the Council’s 2017 Local Plan consultation paper sought to identify preferred sites for allocation, which included land east of Newton Lane), that the most suitable and deliverable site beyond those allocated in the Neighbourhood Plan is land to the east of Newton Lane, Turvey. It was ranked by the Neighbourhood Plan as demonstrably the third best site and has previously been assessed by the Council as an appropriate site for allocation. A range of evidence documents have been produced by Richborough Estates which demonstrate the deliverability of the site.