Object
Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035
Representation ID: 1174
Received: 07/02/2019
Respondent: Mrs Jane Towers
The new Local Plan requires us to accept a further minimum of 500 properties. This will increase our local housing stock by 50% and will undoubtedly increase the population area by a greater percentage given the age demographic of the area. Set a target increase of 25 houses.
In 2014 at the last iteration of the Neighbourhood Plan there were 850 households in the Parish of Chidham and Hambrook. By the time the new Local Plan is published there will have been an increase in the number of properties in the region of 150 to a total of 1003 in the Parish, an 18% increase. The previous Local Plan hWhilst absorbing this number of properties there have been no changes to the infrastructure and services in the area to support the additional population apart from a charity shop and expansion of the Primary School.
Reconsideration needs to be given to the number of houses required in the so called Service villages.