• Plan to meet its full objectively assessed need. The Council has persistently under delivered against its housing requirement, resulting in a significant housing need, both market and affordable;
• Extend the Plan period until at least 2042, to ensure it covers the required 15yrs at the point of adoption (NPPF, para 22);
• Amend the “Vision” (para 3.1) to include reference to housing. Whilst the “Vision” in general is supported, it is a significant failing that it does not mention the delivery of housing a significant element of the Plan. In not addressing the need to deliver housing as an integral part of the “Vision” it fails to accord with the NPPF (para 15);
• Amend the “Strategic Objectives” to include as an objective on its own the need to deliver housing to meet identified needs. This is necessary to accord with the NPPF (para 20) which requires the inclusion of strategic policies that set out the overall strategy and pattern for spatial growth, including for the provision of housing. The “Strategic Objectives” can therefore not be silent on this matter.
• Ensure the potential supply of housing identified is deliverable and reliable, especially within the early part of the Plan period. Concerns are raised that the identified housing capacity of the respective housing pipelines identified are not accurate and/or are not deliverable within the Plan period, a wide range of sites therefore need to be allocated for development, such as land at Mill Road, Gillingham.
• There is no one spatial strategy that can deliver the Council’s full housing need. However, the spatial strategy must include “Suburban Expansion” sites

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