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Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Question 3 - Do you agree that the housing need identified for the Black Country over the period 2014-36 in the SHMA, and the anticipated amount of supply, are appropriate and in line with national gu
Representation ID: 2521
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: JVH Town Planning Consultants Ltd (rep Walton Homes Ltd)
We consider it is thoroughly evidenced by the BCCS and other supporting documents that significant green belt release is required in order to meet the housing requirements of the conurbation, this need should be met by both Green Belt rounding and SUE's in order to meet the housing needs of the Authorities making up the BCCS.
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Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Question 5 - Do you agree with the proposed approach to the Black Country Green Belt Review? Yes/No; If not, what additional work do you think is necessary?
Representation ID: 2522
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: JVH Town Planning Consultants Ltd (rep Walton Homes Ltd)
We support the Green Belt Review.
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Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Question 11a - Do you support Strategic Option 1A? Yes/No; If yes, please explain why.
Representation ID: 2523
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: JVH Town Planning Consultants Ltd (rep Walton Homes Ltd)
We support Strategic Option 1A with a larger level of Green Belt Land release. This option raises less challenges to delivery overall. A flexible approach is however needed that also allows underused employment land that is no longer required to come forward to support the Strategy and bolster the overall supply. The levels of housing need are likely to increase further and therefore allocating and identifying more sites and safeguarding these for the future would be the most pragmatic approach.
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Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Question 12a - Do you support Spatial Option H1? Yes/No; What criteria should be used to select suitable sites? e.g. ability to create a defensible new green belt boundary, size, access to existing re
Representation ID: 2524
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: JVH Town Planning Consultants Ltd (rep Walton Homes Ltd)
We consider that a combination of the two approaches (H1 - Rounding Off and H2 - Sustainable Urban Extensions) is required in order to best attempt to meet the increasing housing requirement. Many areas or land could be rounded off without impacting the main purposes of the Greenbelt and these would provide deliverable sites within the short to medium term. Larger SUEs are also needed but as identified these will take much longer in terms of delivery due to infrastructure requirements. Therefore a combination of the two approaches is therefore required.
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Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Question 15a - If all housing need cannot be met within the Black Country, do you support the 'export' of housing growth to neighbouring authorities within the HMA? Yes/No; What factors should be tak
Representation ID: 2526
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: JVH Town Planning Consultants Ltd (rep Walton Homes Ltd)
Concern is raised in respect to possibility of exporting housing growth. This is unlikely to be achievable. Evidence already exists that other Authorities are not keen on this approach. For example Telford have already rejected taking growth in their Local Plan Examination to the west and Authorities to the east are all under pressure to accommodate Birmingham's requirement. The BCCs should be looking to accommodate their own requirement within the BCCs area. The best way to achieve this is by taking a flexible approach through a combination of rounding and large releases, also making use of redundant employment land, but taking care to only use this resource appropriately and not always in the first instance. Care needs to be taken to ensure that employment land levels are not depleted to such an extent as to create a shortage of employment land provision.
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Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Question 40 - Do you agree that the 2017 SHMA findings should be used to set general house type targets for the Plan period? Yes/No; If no, please explain why.
Representation ID: 2527
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: JVH Town Planning Consultants Ltd (rep Walton Homes Ltd)
We support the use of the latest 2017 SHMA findings to set the housing target.
