Object

Representation ID: 4720

Received: 09/08/2025

Respondent: Miss Jackie Forrest

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? Yes

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Buffer is not small enough needs to be less

Object

Representation ID: 4882

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Nightingale Homes Ltd

Agent: Tetlow King Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The emerging plan sets out the annual housing requirement of 1,636 new homes per year . Over the intended plan period that amounts to a need to identify 24,540 new homes. Paragraph 1.3.6 identifies the supply approach as follows:
• Pipeline sites (with planning consent, not completed or allocated) – 1,762
• Local Plan allocations – 21,194
• Windfall sites – 1,584
Paragraph 1.3.7 notes that “This provides a small buffer on supply over need”
This approach to supply however fails to make any provision for a buffer having regard to paragraphs 72 and 78 of the NPPF.