Additional explanation is required as to what the Council believes a 'delivery plan' to be and that definition needs to reflect that some applicants are not the actual provider of new dwellings and therefore cannot specify delivery dates or programmes.

Although we support the broad aims of this policy we object to Item iii.
Item iii states that ‘delivery plans are required with planning applications for 100 dwellings plus ….’. It is far from clear what is meant by a ‘delivery plan’ and the requirement ignores the fact that planning applications are sometimes promoted by individuals, landowners, institutions, charities or promotional companies rather than housebuilders. Such applicants sell their land on to housebuilders following the granting of permission and therefore have no control over the precise timing or actual delivery of development and no knowledge of that at the point of making a planning application. While a sequence of events can be defined, actual delivery dates will not be known in these circumstances. The policy wording needs to be reviewed in the light of these circumstances.