Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan

Support

Representation ID: 2425

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

We broadly support the Vision for the Local Plan Review (LPR) to 2041, which seeks to maximise the potential of the District through, amongst other things, supporting growing the economy, the delivery of appropriate forms of sustainable growth with the aim of providing a high quality of life for residents, and supporting good quality jobs. We also support the Vision that outside the four main towns new development will be focused primarily on those villages where there are good levels of service and facilities, with larger villages continuing to provide the necessary day-to-day services, noting that Great Gonerby has a close relationship due to its close proximity to Grantham.

Object

Representation ID: 2426

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

We support the need to create the right balance between housing and jobs, in particular to ensure that these are focused in areas that are or can be made sustainable and are accessible.

As with proposed allocation SKPR-57, the Site is well located in relation to major employment proposals at Gonerby Moor proposed in the LPR and so new housing development proposed at the Site would be consistent with the relevant Strategic Objectives.

We support the identification and vision for the Site forming part of the Grantham Sub Regional Centre location.

We support the identification of Plan Objective 2 however, recommend the deletion of the phase “a sufficient number”. Plan Objective 2 should also refer to developing the District’s established key industries and capitalising on established regional specialisms, drawing on the Greater Lincolnshire Local Industrial Strategy.

We broadly support Plan Objective 3, however, recommend that the phraseology is re-considered as providing merely “adequate and appropriate” supply of land and premises is unlikely to achieve aspirational and transformational economic growth to underpin the improvement of the local
economy.

We strongly support Plan Objectives 5 and 6.

We also broadly support Strategic Objectives 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (recommend mentioning developments must achieve a minimum of 10% bio-diversity), 13, 14, and 15.

Object

Representation ID: 2427

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

Broad support is given to Policy SD1 (The Principles of Sustainable Development in South Kesteven) and it reasoned justification.

Support

Representation ID: 2428

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

We support the overall strategy of the LPR, namely, to deliver sustainable growth, including new housing, to facilitate growth on the local economy and to support
local residents as set out in Policy SP1.

Support

Representation ID: 2429

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

We strongly support the Settlement Hierarchy as set out in Policy SP2 of the LPR.

Support

Representation ID: 2430

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

Support new Policy 1: Rural Exception Schemes, to assist in bringing sites forward to meet demonstrable local need for affordable housing. In particular we welcome within that proposed Policy recognition that market housing may come forward alongside affordable housing, subject to the criteria set out in the proposed policy.

Object

Representation ID: 2431

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

The approach of SKDC, through the LPR is welcomed in terms of evaluating and addressing local housing needs in line with extant national policy and planning guidance, thereby seeking to strike a balance in meeting the diverse; but the evidence base demonstrates the proposed supply of new homes in the LPR does not meet objectively assessed demand in the LHNA.

The housing need in the LPR between 2021-2041 of 14, 020 (701 dwellings per annum), which accords with the Standard Method is too low to deliver the necessary supply to meet the demands of the District during the Plan Period for new homes.

We would urge the Council to adopt in the Regulation 19 Local Plan for the Council to adopt a figure in excess of the Standard Method/LHNA – we propose 780 dwellings per annum, If this is not rectified then the Local Plan once adopted will be unsound for want of justification given that its housing requirement is out of step with the evidence base. We consider that the minimum LHNF figure will be insufficient to meet the housing needs of the District to 2041.

Object

Representation ID: 2432

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

Notes that two of the housing allocations – SKPR-278 (Spittlegate Heath) and SKPR-65 (Prince William of Gloucester Barracks) seek to deliver 1,350 and 1,735 homes respectively by 2041. These are large sustainable urban extensions and evidence of the delivery of such developments suggests that it takes 8-10 years from allocation to first completion. There is therefore a degree of unfounded optimism that these two sites will deliver 3,095 dwellings by 2041.

Object

Representation ID: 2433

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

Notes that two of the housing allocations – SKPR-278 (Spittlegate Heath) and SKPR-65 (Prince William of Gloucester Barracks) seek to deliver 1,350 and 1,735 homes respectively by 2041. These are large sustainable urban extensions and evidence of the delivery of such developments suggests that it takes 8-10 years from allocation to first completion. There is therefore a degree of unfounded optimism that these two sites will deliver 3,095 dwellings by 2041.

Object

Representation ID: 2434

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: The Thompson Trust and The Beddows Trust

Agent: Edmond Harcourt Limited

The need to meet affordable housing is also a key requirement to meeting the housing needs of an area and one which could give rise to the Council considering specific increases to the percentage ratio of affordable housing provision on specific strategic allocations to enable longstanding unmet and urgent affordable housing needs in the area to be accelerated. This could include, as stated in paragraph 66(d) a significant percentage (%) requirement on a site or possibly ‘exclusively’ for
affordable housing on a proposed site. Such housing provision could also include homes for first time buyers or discount market housing schemes.

This should be read in conjunction with paragraph 1 of the NPPF, which provides that preparing and maintaining up-to-date plans should be seen as a priority in meeting the objective of providing ‘sufficient’ housing and other development in a sustainable manner. In paragraph 60 in supporting the Governments objective ‘of significantly boosting the supply of homes, it is important that a sufficient amount and variety of land can come forward where it is needed, that the need of groups
with specific housing requirements are addressed’. Accordingly, this new overall aim is ‘to meet as much of a local authority’s identified housing need as possible’. The evidence base is very clear that a higher figure than the LHNA should be adopted as the housing requirement.