Comment

Representation ID: 20361

Received: 27/02/2020

Respondent: Sworders

Number of people: 2

Table 7 sets out the proposed Housing Growth 2018 – 2038. It notes that the Norwich urban area will
see a 29% increase in housing growth, but the village clusters will only experience a 9% increase.
Paragraph 168 of the Plan notes that; ‘a significant proportion of the allocated sites are strategic scale
commitments of 1,000 homes plus’, This reliance on large sites to deliver new homes could result in
delays to the delivery of those homes because of the need for significant infrastructure provision to
be delivered before the homes can be built and occupied.
Paragraph 164.6 of the Plan notes that 12% of the homes allocated through the Plan are on sites of
no larger than 1 hectare and that this complies with paragraph 64 of the NPPF which requires that at
least 10% of sites are no larger than 1 hectare. However, we propose that significantly more growth
should be distributed to smaller sites in this Plan, to off-set the inevitable delays associated with large
scale strategic growth, which forms the majority of the proposed new homes in the Plan.
Distributing a greater proportion of the proposed new homes to smaller sites in and adjacent to the
villages will improve the flexibility of the Plan to respond to changing circumstances, and will help to
ensure a steady delivery of homes to contribute to the five year housing land supply and throughout
the plan period.