More than 300 houses are planned for land off Haygate Road in Wellington. Attached is the formal response from the Haygate Residents Group.
Extract concerning the 5year housing supply;-
· On 5 year housing land supply, we are familiar with the fact that, in November 2013, T&WC admitted that they had been failing to monitor housing land availability against their Core Strategy, as they should have been doing since 2007, as required by para. 54 of the Planning Policy Statement No 3 on Housing (PPS3), as published by the November 2006 by the then Labour Govt., and republished by the new Government in 2010 and repeated in the NPPF in 2012.
· The revised 5 year housing land supply is 8,612 and T&WC now states that their 5 year housing supply is only 4,387. Hence the calculation that they have only a two and a half years’ supply. We think the revised T&WC housing requirement is now eventually correct but we consider that their supply side assessment is too pessimistic. They have only counted 4,145 out of 7,958 dwelling plot capacity on sites with planning approval and large chunks of Lawley, for example, have been excluded. This means exclusion of Lawley ( a brownfield site) results in speculative housing development on a greenfield site like the Gladman proposal. We now understand that this supply side assessment was carried out internally in autumn 2013 but, contrary to best practice, this has not been published by T&WC.
Please see the attached document.