We would encourage the Local Plan to allocate small-scale housing sites and or reconsider the redrawing of development boundaries surrounding non-strategic settlements to provide greater opportunities for windfall development.

In particular we respectfully request that the settlement boundary of Ifold be extended to include land to the rear of Felside, Chalk Road, RH14 OUD and the site allocated. In doing so, this represents a logical extension to Ifold, taking the settlement boundary up to the extent of existing rear gardens, wholly consistent with the limits of the settlement boundary elsewhere.

Whilst we are wholly supportive of the policy’s ambition to deliver new homes through small-scale housing sites, we raise concern with the approach proposed and its over reliance on sites being identified through the neighbourhood/community planning process. We contend the housing needs will not be met in an appropriate timeframe given the extensive levels of inputs and resources required to adopt an NDP.
We maintain that opportunities should be made for development to come forward through small scale allocations and/or through an encouragement of windfall development following extensions to development boundaries. Please refer to our supporting representation cocument attached.