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Representation ID: 44970

Received: 09/03/2022

Respondent: Taylor Wimpey

Agent: Lichfields

10.0 Policy HW3 - Health Impact Assessments
10.1 The justification text to Policy HW3 states that policy provides for the individual Black Country
authorities to require Health Impact Assessments for development proposals, in line with locally
determined criteria, to be set out in local development documents.
10.2 Part 2 of the policy states that where a development has significant negative impacts on health
and wellbeing, the Council may require applicants to provide for mitigation.
10.3 As such impact assessments could be applicable to sites allocated in the BCP and may be needed
to inform infrastructure provision on these sites, Taylor Wimpey considers that these criteria
should be identified in the BCP rather than local development documents. This is the only way
to ensure that the soundness of the policy can be properly tested and assessed through the
viability work which accompanies the plan.