Comment

Representation ID: 22178

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Pigeon Investment Management Ltd

Agent: Pegasus Group

Employment Land Requirement
3.35 As set out in the GNLP, there is no quantitative need for additional employment sites. Nevertheless, the GNLP allocates an additional 40ha providing a total of 360ha of employment land allocations to meet the underlying demand and provide choice to the market.
3.36 Whilst these allocations will assist the economic growth of the area and represent positive planning, if a significant proportion of these are actually developed and occupied, they will be dependent upon greater numbers of incommuters from outside of the plan area. Accordingly, an appropriate monitoring framework should be put in place to ensure that a sufficient number of homes are provided to accommodate the workforce to avoid the resultant environmental harms of a greater dependency on long-distance commuting flows.
3.37 If the monitoring framework indicates that a greater number of jobs have been accommodated than the growth in the resident workforce such that the economy of the area becomes more dependent upon unsustainable long-distance incommuting flows, this should trigger an immediate review of the GNLP alongside a policy response with residential planning applications being considered more favourably until such time as the GNLP review is adopted to address the imbalance.