Objective 3: Housing

Stop second homes….They are killing all the villages and Chichester.

Just stop

Good low energy housing design should include either community or individual PV power generation.

Housing design in order to consider climate change, will have to satisfy the mandatory from 2025 low carbon energy and water efficient Net Zero Future Homes Standards FHS or better with electrical heating/heat pumps and Electrical Vehicle charging facilities.
Good low energy housing design should include either community or individual PV power generation.

The Plan must require minimum standards and evidence of compliance with local objectives, set out clearly and enforceable through the Plan. Preference must be given to smaller developers providing quality housing to local, rather than generic, demand. The plan must have strong policies for areas not suited to housing development to minimise the risk of speculative development.

The Plan must be prepared to take on the bland and monotonous approach of volume house builders, claiming high design qualities, sustainable standards and accessible neighbourhoods. It does not do so.

Support

Plan should set requirements over those stated in Building Regulations

The objective requires clear requirements to ensure that good design that respects the land and heritage of CDC is understood in the subsequent master-planning and detailed design and build. CDC has declared a Climate Emergency and it should set requirements over those stated in Building Regulations; this lack of ambition is acknowledged in the Sustainability Appraisal section 9.6.

Intelligent Land is instructed by Merrow Wood, who have been selected by the landowner to help promote the site for development, to submit representations on the Chichester Local Plan Review, Submission consultation, relating to land at Prospect Farm, Cutmill View near Bosham.
Merrow Wood very much welcomes the renewed progress toward adoption of the Chichester Local Plan Review. The long delay to the plan preparation for the last 3 years has created uncertainty in the District and has, inevitably, lead to “planning by appeal” with development coming forward not in accordance with the existing local plan development strategy.
This objective is supported. Merrow Wood consider that it is essential that new housing growth is focussed on sustainable locations which reduce the need to travel and/or offer opportunity to make sustainable travel choices.

In light of the housing crisis and the continued decreasing affordability of housing in the country as a whole and particularly within Chichester District, it is important that housing continues to be delivered in sustainable locations. The latest data release from 2021 on housing affordability shows that on average within Chichester District house prices are 14.61 times median earnings. This compares unfavorably with the West Sussex County average of 12.07 and the national average of 9.1. Chichester District remains one of the least affordable places to buy a home in the country. Furthermore, the Plan does not intend to meet the Objectively Assessed Need for housing in the district.
Whilst recognizing that the Local Plan Objectives and Vision do reference Housing, it is considered that the importance of housing delivery, and its relationship to affordability, should be made more explicit with reference to the housing crisis and the acute affordability issues in the district. The vision and objectives should also explicitly recognize the important part housing delivery plays in meeting the economic, social and environmental objectives of the NPPF.
Furthermore, it is all the more important that policies enable, rather than potentially hinder, continued delivery of new homes as far as possible, particularly on sustainable allocated sites, such as the West of Chichester. Vistry and Miller are already delivering housing on site contributing to Chichester’s housing needs.

Supports SOSCA's Submission as attached.

Objective 3 should include a statement about the Accessibility Standards and Space Standards of housing, but it does not currently mention either.

See attachment.

All planning applications that allow development on green agricultural land should be refused. All developers should be forced to build out on their land banks. All new housing should be forced to seek out brown field sites.

See attached representation.

See attached.

The importance of housing delivery, and its relationship to affordability, should be made more explicit with reference to the housing crisis and the acute affordability issues in the district. The vision and objectives should also explicitly recognize the important part housing delivery plays in meeting the economic, social and environmental objectives of the NPPF.

In light of the housing crisis and the continued decreasing affordability of housing in the country as a whole and particularly within Chichester District, it is important that housing continues to be delivered in sustainable locations. The latest data release from 2021 on housing affordability shows that on average within Chichester District house prices are 14.61 times median earnings. This compares unfavorably with the West Sussex County average of 12.07 and the national average of 9.1. Chichester District remains one of the least affordable places to buy a home in the country. Furthermore, the Plan does not intend to meet the Objectively Assessed Need for housing in the district.
Whilst recognizing that the Local Plan Objectives and Vision do reference Housing, it is considered that the importance of housing delivery, and its relationship to affordability, should be made more explicit with reference to the housing crisis and the acute affordability issues in the district. The vision and objectives should also explicitly recognize the important part housing delivery plays in meeting the economic, social and environmental objectives of the NPPF.
Furthermore, it is all the more important that policies enable, rather than potentially hinder, continued delivery of new homes as far as possible, particularly on sustainable allocated sites, such as the West of Chichester. Vistry and Miller are already delivering housing on site contributing to Chichester’s housing needs.

The objective requires clear requirements to ensure that good design that respects the land and heritage of CDC is understood in the subsequent master-planning and detailed design and build. CDC has declared a Climate Emergency and it should set requirements over those stated in Building Regulations; this lack of ambition is acknowledged in the Sustainability Appraisal section 9.6.

Housing design in order to consider climate change, will have to satisfy the mandatory from 2025 low carbon energy and water efficient Net Zero Future Homes Standards FHS or better with electrical heating/heat pumps and Electrical Vehicle charging facilities.
Good low energy housing design should include either community or individual PV power generation.