Object

South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 19 Pre-submission Draft)

Representation ID: 2600

Received: 01/03/2023

Respondent: Hempnall Parish Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Hempnall Parish Council challenges the decoupling of the housing allocations for the South Norfolk Village Clusters and its associated policy from the rest of the GNLP as being unsound. The GNLP Regulation 19 consultation commenced before the South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations document (SNVCHAP) was published for its Regulation 18 consultation. This was despite the South Norfolk Local Development Scheme (accessed 18 February 2021 when it was labelled as “final”) stating that the SNVCHAP would be consulted on in February/March 2021, whereas it took place later in the year, ending on 2 August 2021. While it is reasonable for a Local Plan to comprise several separate documents, the GNLP and the SNVCHAP to be sound should follow the same, or at least a very similar timetable, otherwise it is impossible to judge whether the two (or more) documents are based on proportionate evidence.

Change suggested by respondent:

Given that the housing numbers proposed for inclusion in the GNLP could be found to be unsound and unnecessarily large this reinforces the view of Hempnall Parish Council which is that there is no need for additional sites to be allocated for housing in the village as part of the South Norfolk Village Clusters Plan and indeed there is no need for any allocations to be made anywhere in South Norfolk via the SNVCHAP.