Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan

Object

Representation ID: 2462

Received: 24/04/2024

Respondent: Muller Property Group

Agent: Parker Planning Services

Allocating additional sites within the context of the SKDCLP Review (i.e., allocation of our client’s site SKPR-258 in addition to ‘preferred’ site SKPR-247), will make the Plan more ‘flexible’ in respect of responding to housing needs that emerge during the plan-period. Furthermore, increasing allocations would make the LPA less reliant on ‘unplanned’ windfall development within the plan-period.

PPS can confirm that their client’s site (SKPR-258) remains suitable, available, and achievable/deliverable (including viable). It is considered that our client’s site is inherently more ‘suitable’ for allocation than the Council’s currently ‘preferred option (SKPR-247).

SKDC considered that other ‘more suitable’ sites were available to meet required need across the plan period. The Council’s reasoning is unclear in respect of ‘suitability’ particularly given both our client’s site and ‘preferred’ site SKPR-247 are both the subject of 7 ‘reds’ in respect of their own ‘constraints’ assessment and as this appears within the context of their own Draft Site Assessment Report (February 2024).

Object

Representation ID: 2605

Received: 24/04/2024

Respondent: Muller Property Group

Agent: Parker Planning Services

It is not considered that the (16) Larger Villages ‘share’ of development within the plan-period (15% of the overall number of new dwellings) is commensurate with their position within the ‘Settlement Hierarchy’, (Policy SP2). Allocating more sites within the larger villages would put less pressure on the larger settlements to accommodate growth within the plan period and the settlement of Grantham in particular, where the Council are proposing to accommodate almost half of their residential development.