Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission

Support

Representation ID: 5551

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: Millwood Designer Homes

Agent: Savills

MDH supports CDC’s focus on increasing development in the north of the plan area.

Noted.

Support

Representation ID: 5552

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: Millwood Designer Homes

Agent: Savills

MDH supports the identification of a need for development in Service Villages in the north part of the plan area and considers that there is opportunity for CDC to allocate further homes within the northern area to accommodate their entire housing need.

Noted.

Object

Representation ID: 5553

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: Millwood Designer Homes

Agent: Savills

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

CDC should increase the number of dwellings allocated to the Service Villages, particularly in the northern part of the plan area, in order to meet the district’s housing need, to support the unmet need of the South Downs National Park and counteract the A27 infrastructure constraints. Policy H1 is unjustified, ineffective, not positively prepared and contrary to national policy.
See attachment for full objection.

The housing distribution seeks to reconcile a range of factors in order to achieve the most sustainable approach to the distribution of development. This is set out in the more detail within the Sustainability Appraisal and Housing Distribution Background Paper.

As set out in the SA and Housing Distribution Background Paper a range of scenarios were considered in the north plan area and the final scenarios are the most appropriate for each settlement when taking into account the full range of factors needing to be considered.
Higher options for the north of the plan area have already been considered and deemed inappropriate through the SA process.

Promotion of site noted

Object

Representation ID: 5554

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: Millwood Designer Homes

Agent: Savills

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

CDC must complete the Statements of Common Ground before the Plan progresses any further. There remains a present requirement to adhere to the Duty to Cooperate, which in future will require that relevant Local Plans ‘align’.

Finalised SoCG are published on the Council’s website.

Object

Representation ID: 5555

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: Millwood Designer Homes

Agent: Savills

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

See attachment for full comments. Proposes increase of Wisborough Green's number to 125 and allocation of HELAA Site at Land East of St Peter's Church for up to 80 dwellings. Policy should support speculative applications if Neighbourhood Plan does not propose development.

Since the publication of the Preferred Approach Local Plan, work has had to be undertaken to look at the capacity of the north east of the plan area to accommodate more dwellings, due to the constraints on growth in the south of the plan area (to demonstrate that the council has left ‘no stone unturned’ in seeking to reach the full local housing need figure).

The outcome of this work, as set out in the Sustainability Appraisal (2023) and the Housing Distribution Background Paper (May 2024) was that Wisborough Green has the capacity to accommodate 75 dwellings. Therefore, the figure of 75 is considered an appropriate figure to help meet the overall housing numbers.

Promotion of alternative site noted.
There is a track record of allocations successfully being made through Neighbourhood Plans and there is no evidence to suggest that this will not continue over the plan period. The council would use a further DPD as a mechanism for ensuring that site allocations can be made should Neighbourhood Plans not progress within a reasonable timeframe following adoption of the Local Plan.