The housing commitment numbers reflect the proposed growth distribution of the Settlement Hierarcy, which is supported. The approach to housing numbers appears to be sound, but we note that the draft plan proposes to allocate sites that already have the benefit of having been granted planning consent. There is a need to ensure that the deliverable housing commitment figure does not double count those sites proposed for allocation and those sites that already benefit from an extant planning permission, which will ensure that the housing commitment is sufficient to meet the identified need.

The approach to providing allocations in village clusters in South Norfolk within a separate plan is questioned and serves to add uncertainty regarding the ability of the plan to allocate sufficient sites to meet housing need across the Greater Norwich area over the plan period. A better approach would be to run consultation on all GNLP sites simultaneously.